At 3:09 PM +0000 12/8/00, Wasim Bashir wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my qpopper only allow users to pick up email with apop... i want to
> know how do i get qpopper to accept both apop and clear text passwords...
>
> the way i see it... if i take out a user from the popauth database...
> shouldn't qpopper allow the user taken out of the database to use clear text
> passwords ? every time i do this i keep getting authentication failure
> errors because the user isn't in the popauth database, even though the
> apop option isn't ticked.
By default, Qpopper forces users who are in the APOP database to use
APOP and not clear text passwords. Likewise, by default, Qpopper
permits clear text passwords for users who are not in the APOP
database. If you are seeing different behavior, perhaps you are
using the '-p' command-line or 'clear-text-password' configuration
file option?
If you are sure you are not changing the default behavior, and are
seeing different results (for example, users