Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 Pop setup question...

[alexandre <alex@xxxxxxxxx>]

in 11/29/00 12:09 AM, tvernier tvernier@xxxxxxx blabbered:

> Hi all,
> Hoping someone has run into this one already. I am unable to retrieve email
> from my cube 2. it appears to be setup correctly. I can send mail to
> root@xxxxxxxxxxx , manually log in and I get the message, "you have mail".
> However, my email client (Outlook 2000) fails to login to the cube to
> retrieve email.
> If I telnet to the cube using port 110, issue the command "user username"
> where username is the email alias I have setup in the Administrator page,
> the username is OK, I then issue the command "pass userpassword" , then
> after a short delay, I get the message:
> "-ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "username" is incorrect. +OK Pop server
> at myhost.mydomain.net signing off.
> and I get kicked out of the telnet session. So my cube isn't authenticating
> my username passwords. Anyone have a suggestion as to where to poke? Regular
> telnet sessions work correctly, and I'm stumped on how to get this pop
> server to allow logins from my email clients.
> Please help if you can,
> tom

    I might be wrong, but I believe you can't use your email aliases to log
into the POP server. Use your proper username.
   
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