RE: [cobalt-users] Email password authentication problem - SOLVED

["Neil Stringer" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

D'OH -  I should have remebered this from when XP was first launched!

No sooner sent than realised the problem... So for all of you POP3ers
out there using Outlook 2002, and I stress Outlook 2002, there is a
_bug/feature_ in Outlook that will cause it to pop this authentication
problem if it attempts to connect to the same mail box simultaneously in
two different threads.

The reason that this only effect O-2002 is that it is only in this
version that MS have tried to improve performance and parallelise the
processing of multiple mail accounts.  In previous versions all mail
account porcessing was done synchronously and this did not occur.

...and yes, if you have read this far, then you will have realised that
I had mistakenly used the same userid in two different POP3 accounts...
And this is where I must say that ENSIM does it better.  User names on
the Raq must be unique across all domains.  ENSIM appends #<domain.name>
to all user names so that they ARE unique...

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Stringer
> Sent: 19 March 2003 21:16
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Email password authentication problem
> 
> 
> Newbie POP3 mail authentication query...
> 
> I have an annoying problem on my Raq4i, fully patched up to 
> and including 
> 
> RaQ4-Solarspeed.net-Sendmail Release 8.10.2-C1sol1 
> 
> It also has 
> 
> RaQ34-Solarspeed.net-Qpopper Release 4.0.4 
> 
> The Raq hosts +- 10 domains, and I have email accounts on 
> about 5 of them.  My mail client is Outlook 2002.
> 
> Every now and then Outlook will pop up a dialog box inviting 
> me to enter my password for one or other of the mail 
> accounts.  I just click OK (or
> whatever) to use the password that is pre-populated into the 
> dialog box and everything continues OK.
> 
> How can I start to trace this problem down in the Raq?  What 
> logs do I need to look at, what can I do to enable some 
> diagnostic logging etc etc etc?
> 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> It seems that it only does (and NOT all the time) this when 
> there is email to be delivered through the account in question... 
> 
> I have restarted the Raq4 and still get the same problem.  I 
> have removed my email virus scanners on the PC.... I have 
> rebooted the PC... And still the same thing happens... Don't 
> think it is client side (unless off course it is Microsoft 
> Outlook itself).
> 
> 
> --
> TIA Neil
> 
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