on 8/23/01 12:34 PM, Cerebus the Aardvark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I know you're not supposed to do what I'm doing but I do it anyway:
>> For convenience we have an account that two users fetch and send mail
>> through. The problem is that when both users try to access the account at
>> the same time one of them gets a dialog that says "Invalid usercode or
>> password, please try again." That's ok but in the SIMS log there is an entry
>> of the password in clear text although we are using APOP. Like this:
>>
>>
>> 12:55:40 1 SYSTEM Account {leverans} password rejected. APOP method is
>> required
>> 12:55:40 1 POP {leverans} is not open: password(xxxxx) is wrong. Connection
>> from [213.66.212.218:65393]
>
> How is that a bug? The passwords are stored in cleartext in the
> resource fork anyway. If someone has access to your machine to see
> the logs they certainly have access to the passwords.
I think the best thing is to split this into two accounts. If you have USER,
and USER_A and USER_B and have the USER account route to both USER A&B
accounts. This will help with logging and it will keep either email client
from get strange dialog boxes about passwords.
Michael
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