Hi
the userid is in lowercase...and I am not using shadow passwords - I did try
the --enable-specialauth just for fun and it didn't work...
Dave
maybe you have JohnSmith capitalized in your password file. all usernames
should be lowercase.
-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today"
http://www.asteroid-b612.org http://www.intergrafix.net
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Dave Robinson wrote:
> I am having a seriously hard time getting Qpopper to work on our Linux
mail
> server. Sendmail has been installed on this box and has been running
> perfectly for 9 months. I installed Qpopper and have not been able to get
it
> to run. I followed all of your FAQ's and even consulted our Linux
> consultants and no one can figure out what the problem is.
>
> Can you somehow offer me some assitance? The problem - whenever someone
logs
> in(using Outlook Express) they get a 'Your password was rejected' I have
> checked and rechecked the password. I am using standard Linux
> authentication, but tried the specialauth flag and still doesn't work.
>
> I enabled tracing and got the follwing output...
>
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Debugging turned on [pop_init.c:240]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Unable to get canonical name
of
> client ###.###.###.###: Unknown host (1) [pop_init.c:401]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Servicing request from
> "###.###.###.###" at ###.###.###.### [pop_init.c:504]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK QPOP (version 3.0.2) at
> mail.$$$$$$$.com starting. [popper.c:160]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Qpopper ready for input from (null) at
> ###.###.###.### [###.###.###.###] [popper.c:188]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Received (16): "USER JohnSmith"
> [pop_get_command.c:87]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK Password required for JohnSmith.
> [pop_user.c:249]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Qpopper ready for input from JohnSmith
> at ###.###.###.### [###.###.###.###] [popper.c:188]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: Received: "pass xxxxxxxxx"
> [pop_get_command.c:81]
> Dec 21 16:00:19 mail qpopper[1113]: User JohnSmith not in passwd file
> [pop_pass.c:886]
> Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: JohnSmith at ###.###.###.###
> (###.###.###.###): -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "JohnSmith" is
> incorrect. [pop_pass.c:888]
> Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: +OK Pop server at mail.$$$$$$$.com
> signing off. [popper.c:242]
> Dec 21 16:00:29 mail qpopper[1113]: (v3.0.2) Ending request from
"JohnSmith"
> at (###.###.###.###) ###.###.###.### [popper.c:253]
>
> I changed certain text in the trace to protect the innocent. I checked my
> \etc\passwd file and verified that JohnSmith existed. Does Qpopper use a
> different passwd file?
>
>
> Please Help!!!
>
> Dave Robinson
>
>
