> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:36 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: pop won't authenticate my password > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:53:23AM -0500, Ed McCorduck wrote: > > 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. > > root won't work with the default pop server. That's > documented in the FAQ file for the imap server (look in > /usr/share/doc/imap<version>/FAQ.txt > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program Hi Ed, Thanks for the reference. I used "root" as one of my many wild-guess passwords only because I was grasping at straws, trying to find anything Linux-like I thought my pop server had my password down as. 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
