Why not totally recreate the user _including_ his home directory and
mailbox and my guess is that it will then work (like everyone else).
Peter
At 07:45 21/12/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a strange problem. Qpopper suddently stopped
>accepting a particular user's login. I have reset the password
>and even deleted and recreated the account information
>(but not the home directory) and qpopper will not work for this
>one account. I have many other poeople with working pop accounts
>and there seems to be nothing particular about this one. Telnet and ftp work
>fine for the account, and I can access the mail okay with the standard
>"mail" program.
>
>I am using Redhat 6.1 and qpopper 3.1b6
>
>Here is what I get from fetchmail (although the problem
>first occured when the person was using outlook)
>
>fetchmail: 5.1.0 querying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (protocol POP3) at Thu, 21 Dec
>2000 07:29:23 -0500 (EST)
>fetchmail: POP3< +OK ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>fetchmail: POP3> USER john
>fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for john.
>fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
>fetchmail: POP3< -ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to process From lines (envelopes),
>change recognition modes or check for corrupted mail drop.
>fetchmail: [SYS/PERM] Unable to process From lines (envelopes), change
>recognition modes or check for corrupted mail drop.
>fetchmail: Authorization failure on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
>fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx signing off.
>fetchmail: authorization error while fetching from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>fetchmail: Query status=3
>fetchmail: normal termination, status 3
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Karl
>
>
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