Which pop server and authentication method do you use ? -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed McCorduck Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:53 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: pop won't authenticate my password Hi, I run Red Hat Linux 9 on a computer that's part of a home network that has a fixed IP address and domain name linked to the IP address. I've just started using an e-mail server on this system, and I use SMTP as an outgoing mail server and POP as the incoming mail server (I made sure the 25 and 110 ports are open under the network's firewall). Right now I'm using just Mozilla Mail to test everything out first before I look into adopting a more advanced e-mail client. After I set up my account with Mozilla Mail, the SMTP server works fine, i.e. I can send mail to any Internet address and my address will be given as coming from my domain name. However, when I try to retrieve mail, as my Mozilla is set up to do first thing when it starts, I'm asked to "Enter your password for ed@pop" ("ed" is my RH9 user name, with the only other one on my system being "root"). I supply my normal RH9 password for user "ed", but I get in response "The PASS command did not succeed. Mail server pop responded: Authentication failed." I tried other variations on what my pop password might be, including "ed" itself, "root" and a bunch of other wild guesses, but each time nothing worked. I've researched this problem in the Red Hat support archives and the closest I come is that perhaps I need to do something with the /etc/passwd file and also I found this thread in the June 2003 archives for this list: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------- From: Bill Tangren <bjt aa usno navy mil> To: redhat-list redhat com Subject: Re: simple question related to pop3 Date: Tue Jun 17 14:03:04 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- David Richards wrote: Hi Is there any way that I would be able to add a user to a server so that they are only able to use their username and password for pop3 ? Even tho the server is configured for ftp and ssh too? In the /etc/passwd file, change that user's login shell from /bin/bash, or whatever it is set to, to /bin/false. This will keep them from logging in,but they can still get their email via the pop server. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- >From opening my /etc/passwd file, it appears that my "ed" user name is set to something like this, i.e. /bin/bash, but when I tried to open this file (in gedit) I was told "Could not open the file "/bin/bash" because it contains invalid UTF-8 date. Probably, you are trying to open a binary file." And that's as far as my newbie knowledge of Linux can take me. Any advice on what I can do now to try to get my pop server to authenticate me so I can start receiving mail would be greatly appreciated. Ed McCorduck Department of English State University of New York College at Cortland ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mccorduck.cortland.edu http://McCorduck.ws -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
