We upgraded Qualcomm popper version 3.1.2 to 4.0.2 last Friday
and had to help a number of Outlook Express users (other admins
have already posted the same on this mailing list).
In a number of cases (all ?) the situation could be normalised by
entering the user password in the appropriate OE configuration panel.
We found that a combination of empty password field and a checked
"remember password" box makes the client exhibit different behaviour
with Qpopper 4 server versus version 3.
Small illustration :
% telnet XXXX pop3
Trying [SNIP]...
Connected to XXXX.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK QPOP (version 3.1.2) at XXXX starting.
user joeuser<CR>
+OK Password required for joeuser.
pass<CR> [several seconds wait]
-ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "joeuser" is incorrect.
+OK Pop server at XXXX signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
% telnet YYYY pop3
Trying [SNIP]...
Connected to YYYY.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Qpopper (version 4.0.2) at YYYY starting.
user joeuser<CR>
+OK Password required for joeuser.
pass<CR> [several MINUTES wait]
-ERR POP timeout from YYYY
+OK Pop server at YYYY signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
Other data :
both servers are Solaris 7, shadow password files
Qpopper was compiled in server mode, no APOP or Kerberos, no TLS
(de)selecting "chunky-writes" makes no difference
Hope this helps,
Eric Luyten, Computing Centre VUB/ULB.
P.S. Moving from Qpopper 3 to 4 makes for half the CPU utilisation
and 60% less I/O on the mail spool partitions.
Great job, Randall et al.
