On 08 Aug 2001 10:03:27 +0700, FAHRIZAL RAZAK wrote:
> In my Qmail 1.03 and vpopmail 4.10.20,
> I always receive error reports of some my users (not all my
> users) like these :
>
> Aug 7 18:39:38 my.host.net vpopmail[9907]: [ID 676305 mail.notice]
> vchkpw: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa
> Aug 7 18:45:25 my.host.net vpopmail[10621]: [ID 628377 mail.notice]
> vchkpw: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa
> Aug 7 18:50:05 my.host.net vpopmail[11181]: [ID 676305 mail.notice]
> vchkpw: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa
> Aug 7 18:55:51 my.host.net vpopmail[11928]: [ID 628377 mail.notice]
> vchkpw: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa
> Aug 7 18:58:52 my.host.net vpopmail[11958]: [ID 628677 mail.notice]
> vchkpw: password fail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa
>
> In fact, there are no problem on user1, user2, user3 and other my users
> side. They always success download their emails from my email server
> (pop) using syntax "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "user_x%userdomain.com" as
> their login name.
>
> Is this qmail problem or vpopmail problem? and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Fahrizal Razak
Have you tried logging into pop with telnet and entering
user/pass while watching the log file? Try to reproduce
the problem.
The information you report doesn't show enough information to
make the conclusion that there is anything wrong, it could be
someone logging in with the wrong password.
Ken Jones
