From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 10:52:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251C037B404 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:52:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1JIqT731004; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:52:29 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:52:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Jorge Ramirez Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper - "canonical name of client", "ERR password supplied" Message-ID: <20020220075229.A30661@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020219154758.63574.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020219154758.63574.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>; from ijand2@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:47:58AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message