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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                  
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Regards, Ulf.

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