Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:52:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Jorge Ramirez <ijand2@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper - "canonical name of client", "ERR password supplied" Message-ID: <20020220075229.A30661@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020219154758.63574.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>; from ijand2@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:47:58AM -0800 References: <20020219154758.63574.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:47:58AM -0800, Jorge Ramirez wrote:
> I just finished setting up a dns server, with sendmail and popper. The
> mail has no problem being sent to and from the mail server, but when i
> try to access any of the mail accounts using a pop3 client on another
> computer on the network, it gives me the following errors...
>
> ns1 popper[1459]: (v2.53) Unable to get canonical name of client
> 192.168.1.32
> ns1 popper[1459]: user@[192.168.1.32]: -ERR password supplied for
> "user" is incorrect.
>
>
> I have a feeling that the canonical name error has something to do with
> the dns server.
You're right. You need to put in a ptr-entry for 192.168.1.32 on the
DNS server.
>But why does it keep giving me a bad password error,
> when the password is correct?
A few questions first:
1. Did you install popper from the ports system
2. Do you have an entry in /etc/pam.conf for pop3
3. Are you *sure* of the case-sensitivity of both USER and
PASSWORD?
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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