Re: [cobalt-users] Problems with POP service

[Patrick Béart <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Interesting Anomoly.
>
> Found that if you use the password that belongs to the administrator as you
> POP3 password, the RaQ thinks it must use APOP even if APOP is not turned
> on. When you change the password to something other than the admin
> password, the popper acts normally.
>
> Also, had to save changes several times in all relevant screens to get
> email working properly on a RaQ3. Whoever said you have to "kick start" it
> by doing this was correct (elegant, eh!).
>
> Jay Kraft


	Uh, That was me who said that. I got the word from a friend 
who is both a reseller for Cobalt, and a network administrator. Uses 
Raq's quite a bit.

	About the advice:  Go figure, huh?      ; )


Patrick Beart
(newbie to the list, Raq's, and Unix/Linux, generally. Please be 
patient with me, I'm a Mac user. <G>)



> At 03:43 PM 07/20/2000 +0200, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, LaacZ wrote:
> >
> > >  On my RaQ3 there is a lot of entries in /var/log/messages:
> > >
> > >  Jul 20 13:17:40 home in.qpopper[10171]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical
> name of client, err = 0
> > >  Jul 20 13:17:40 home in.qpopper[10172]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical
> name of client, err = 0
> > >  Jul 20 13:17:40 home in.qpopper[10173]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical
> name of client, err = 0
> > >  pop service is down. what could be a possible reason?
> >
> > This means that when qpopper tried to do a reverse lookup on the
> > connecting ip address, it failed to do so. This probably indicates a
> > missing PTR record or a dns server that's down
> >
> >  --
> > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
> > --
> > John C. Rood
> > UNIX programmer/Database developer/System administrator
>  >SFARC Networks, The Netherlands - http://www.sfarc.net
> >

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