Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 02:25:51 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Dave Edwards <davo@chunga.apana.org.au>, Eddie Fry <eddie@eaznet.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Popper 2.52 Message-ID: <19980716022551.B9502@Alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <199807160912.SAA08559@chunga.apana.org.au>; from Dave Edwards on Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 06:42:21PM %2B0930 References: <35ACF04F.3F48B371@eaznet.com> <199807160912.SAA08559@chunga.apana.org.au>
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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
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