pop3 passwd popper

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:44:53 -0500
From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
Subject: Re: POP3 problem
References: <8d58e154.0111200826.4080948e@posting.google.com> 

Filip Verborgh wrote:
> 
> Helo,
> 
> When I try to recieve a message with an e-mail client (Outlook
> Express) from the standard POP3 server of a SCO 5.0.5 server I get
> everytime the message : "can't find password file".(user name &
> password are correct).

Possibly http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105696 relates
to your problem, assuming that poper is running:

netstat -an | grep ":110"

> Same problem when I try to telnet on port 110 of this server, error
> message and connection closed. The server does not ask for username or
> password.

Well, popd doesn't ASK, it waits for you to tell.

> 
> I de�nstalled/installed SCO mail services but no solution there.
> I searched SCO-TA but no mentioning of this problem there.

You couldn't have searched very well.  Just curious- what search terms
did you use?

I'm fascinated by that because I keep logs on my own site of what people
search for- I use that to help make my own indexes better at locating
stuff- but I'm often amazed at how poorly people go about searching. 
I'm not saying you did or didn't make an intelligent search, but
apparently you didn't find the arrticle above, or maybe you just didn't
recognize it as being related to your problem. Or, perhaps you did find
it and it definitely is NOT our problem, but if that's the case you
should have mentioned that here.

> 
> I can send a message to that user via SMTP (sendmail) on that server
> and check his mail via the unix prompt.

Irrelevant, unrelated.



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