Re: pop error

[Scott Gifford <sgifford@suspectclass.com>]

Danish Siddiqui <dsiddiqui@vertex.co.in> writes:

> Hi,
> Ive installed qmail-1.03 on my FC4 system. Using thunderbird am my MUA, 
> im able to send messages after authenticating, but while authenticating 
> for pop, im shown an error
>
> sending of password did not succeed. Mail server 127.0.0.1 responded: 
> authorization failed, but when I use /bin/checkpassword from CLI, its 
> working fine.

Take a look at the logs for qmail-pop3d or whatever POP server you're
using and see if there are clues there.  Try talking to the POP server
by hand ("telnet pop.server.name 110") and see if you can
authenticate.  If everything works by hand but not by a client, look
at using "recordio" or a packet sniffer (like ethereal/tcpdump/wireshark) 
to see what the client is doing differently than what you're doing by
hand.

Good luck!

---Scott.