From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 16 02:27:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA15231 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:27:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (gatekeeper.Alameda.net [207.90.181.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA15226 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:27:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulf@Gatekeeper.Alameda.net) Received: by Gatekeeper.Alameda.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id CAA12620; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980716022551.B9502@Alameda.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:25:51 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Dave Edwards , Eddie Fry Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper 2.52 Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net References: <35ACF04F.3F48B371@eaznet.com> <199807160912.SAA08559@chunga.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807160912.SAA08559@chunga.apana.org.au>; from Dave Edwards on Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 06:42:21PM +0930 Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 06:42:21PM +0930, Dave Edwards wrote: > 'Eddie Fry scribbled..' > > > I have been using qpopper 2.52 for quite a while with no problems. All > > of a sudden, however, some of my customers cannot get their mail. > > Popper replies with "Invalid Password" even though the password is > > correct. Not all of my accounts are having this problem. I can telnet > > in from any account without a problem. I've checked rights on their > > mail files and they look ok. Any ideas? > > We are having a minor problem too in that for a new user, qpopper > cannot create the temp file .$username.pop in the mail spool > directory. If the file already exists there is no problem. > > Anyone else seen this? Is your /var/mail group writable ? On a machine which went from 2.0 to 2.1.x to 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 it was not group writable and I always had that problem. I made a special temp dir for the pop users and changed qpopper to use it, instead of the /var/mail for it's tmp files. > > ciao > dave > -- > Dave Edwards > davo@chunga.apana.org.au || davo@sa.apana.org.au > Adelaide, South Australia > ---- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message