From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 18 08:32:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA12371 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA12366 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id JAA22783; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:30:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199704181530.JAA22783@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: -ERR Unknown command: "auth". To: tcg@cguy.com (Gary Chrysler) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:30:35 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704172020.UAA03124@ramillia.cguy.com> from "Gary Chrysler" at Apr 17, 97 08:23:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary asked: > Hi all, I was wondering if someone knew how I could stop > this: > -ERR Unknown command: "auth". > > from flooding my logs.. :( > > I've searched the archives and came up with the reasons why! > But not how to stop it from flooding my logs. Looks like you've got a mail reader (or several) configured to use APOP, but you don't have APOP. Tell your users to configure their mail readers to use regular POP password authentication. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com