From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 15 03:34:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 03:34:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA28318 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 03:34:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA20479 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:34:11 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199807151034.WAA20479@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:34:09 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Can't read root mailbox Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <199807132304.LAA17324@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 Jul 98, at 11:04, Dan Langille wrote: > I've installed qpopper. I have two users on my system. I'm trying to > read their mailboxes from my NT box using the Pegasus mail client. I can > read the mail for one user, but not for the other. The message displayed > on the console is "-ERR Password supplied for "root" is incorrrect". > > I hope it's wanting the same password as used to logon using root at the > console. Because that's what I'm supplying. > > I notice that in /var/mail, I have the following entries: > > .abcdef.pop abcdef root > > I don't get the error for the abcdef user (not the actual name). Should > there be a .root.pop entry in this directory? If so, how should it be > created? By private email, a reader suggested I look at .forward and when searching for just that in the archives, I found /etc/aliases. After completing the well known aliases for root, manager, and dumper, I found that email was being forwarded. thanks for that. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com : for race timing solutions To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message