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

[Mike Vanecek <nospam99@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:12:56 -0500, alexandre <alex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:>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.

Quite so, I now realize that when I tested it before I was using the proper
username to log on and not the alias. From in.qpopper:

"The server enters the authorization state, during which the client must
correctly  identify itself  by  providing a valid Unix userid and password on
the server's host machine"  I.e., an alias is not a valid userid.

My apologies to tvernier.

Mike.