From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 10:34:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF74216A422 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:34:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 545EE43D45 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:34:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robin@reportlab.com) Received: (qmail 41460 invoked from network); 2 Jun 2006 10:34:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 2 Jun 2006 10:34:48 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 217.196.247.135 Message-ID: <44801448.50009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:34:48 +0100 From: Robin Becker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <44800F1D.50100@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44800F1D.50100@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: qpopper for root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:34:51 -0000 Robin Becker wrote: > I am trying to use qpopper for delivering mail to my PC based mail > client from a freeBSD 6.0 release system > > -ERR [AUTH] "root": access denied. > whoops hit the wrong key too soon. I have added user x and user root to the APOP data base, and have checked that user x can do pop3 with the client thunderbird. However, I get the above message for the root account. Is there some problem with root using APOP authentication? -- Robin Becker