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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 1997 14:20:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        sweeting@tm.net.my
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: POP not recognising passwords : anyone any ideas ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970403142001.20226G-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <v01540b04af6a0040b6b3@[202.184.153.110]>

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On Fri, 4 Apr 1997 sweeting@tm.net.my wrote:

> I am trying to create another mailhub.
> Virtual sendmail domains works fine - i can send between
> userA@real.com and userB@virt1.com and userC@virt2.com.
> The routing is fine and sending mail from these users
> on PC's and Mac's works perfectly.
> 
> Now to collect mail, I have installed qpopper2.2.
> Telnetted to port 110 and it seems to be working fine.
> But when I try to connect from the PC's, Eudora gives
> me the message
> "ERR I said USER fred
>   and then the POP server (fred@virt1.com) said :
>   ERR password for 'fred' is incorrect."

You have to set the pop mailer to the real userid and password of the
account being mapped to.

This is why pop mailers have separate places for userid, and for email
address.




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