The pop3 server that is answering your requests is not qmail-pop3d.
qmail-pop3d looks like this with a bad login:
mail:~$ telnet mail.cimx.com 110
Trying 64.44.169.42...
Connected to mail.cimx.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+OK
pass bobby
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.
You need to find out what's really running on port 110, disable it and run
qmail-pop3d.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wm. Christman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Relief at last...well, sort of.
Ok, here's the telnet session:
[wjc@w133 wjc]$ telnet showbostons.com 110
Trying 208.177.86.133...
Connected to showbostons.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 w133.z208177086.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net v7.64 server ready
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+OK User name accepted, password please
pass <XXXXXXX>
-ERR Bad login
quit
+OK Sayonara
and the tail from /var/log/mail.log
(same output in /var/log/mail/mail.info):
Sep 28 01:40:48 w133 ipop3d[7252]: pop3 service init from 208.177.86.133
Sep 28 01:41:06 w133 ipop3d[7252]: Login failure [EMAIL PROTECTED]
domain=showbostons.com host=w133.z208177086.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net
[208.177.86.133]
Sep 28 01:41:11 w133 ipop3d[7252]: Logout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
host=w133.z208177086.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [208.177.86.133]
Hope this helps.
Could this problem be related to whichever crypt package is being used as
standard on Mandrake Linux to generate passwords?
-wm.
> From: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:18:35 -0400
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Relief at last...well, sort of.
>
> Can we see telnet session to port 110 with the attempted login?
>
> Also a cut and paste from the logs for that session?
>
> PLEASE do not edit the logs or the session.
>
> This would be most helpful.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wm. Christman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 3:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Relief at last...well, sort of.
>
>
> Howdy folks:
>
> After bashing my head against the wall for nearly a week trying to get
Paul
> Gregg's Single-UID POP box scheme working, I happened upon vpopmail. (I'm
> sure Paul's instrux are just fine and I'm the idiot who can't get them to
> work...)
>
> Within 20 minutes, I had vpopmail downloaded, built, and up and running.
My
> first attempt at creating a virtual account was a huge success. I was
able
> to send mail to that account without a hitch and verified that it arrived
by
> poking around in the ./Maildir/new directory for that user's account.
What
> a RELIEF!
>
> However, the problem I'm having is that I cannot access the account's POP
> box. I get an authorization failed (a "bad login" on my mail client and a
> "login failure" in /var/log/mail.log .) when I try to log in to get the
> mail.
>
> I've tried all manner of logins (user w/o domain, user with domain, a "@",
a
> "%", etc...) with the correct password. I even reset the password and
still
> no luck.
>
> I've got a semi-standard tcpserver set of lines for the pop stuff in my
> qmail startup script (as suggested by the INSTALL doc):
>
> env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
> tcpserver -H -R 0 pop3 \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.domain.com \
> /~vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \
> /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
>
> I run Linux (Mandrake's latest), qmail 1.03, pop3 is in /etc/services,
> tcpserver is running (as far as I know). Should "pop3d" be running as a
> background process? Or is it just called when needed?
>
> Is there anything blatantly obvious I'm missing here? I feel that I'm
SOOOO
> close to having this whole thing working and maybe it's just something
> stupid that I'm omitting.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions.
>
> -wm. christman
>
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