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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:59:14 +0100
From:      Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk>
To:        bofh@TerraNova.net, Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ERR POP EOF console errors
Message-ID:  <1.5.4.32.19970421195914.006d2de0@wrcmail>

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At 17:08 18/04/97 -0400, Travis Mikalson wrote:
>Bradley Dunn wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Travis Mikalson wrote:
>> 
>> > The "ERR: "auth" unknown command" is caused by older versions of
>> > Micros**t Internet Mail.
>> > Someone thought 'auth' was a POP command over there at Microsoft..
>> > *shrug*
>> 
>> Ummm...it is. See RFC1734.
>> 
>> pbd
>
>Ok, then why does qpopper 2.2 not like it?
>MS Internet Mail used to do _something_ wrong with the auth command
>according to that particular error message qpopper generates..

Um, I tested it with Eudora... quitting mid-download causes the same error.
MS Mail is not alone -- or qpopper logs unnecessarily... take your pick.

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