> -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Fratoni > Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 10:03 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: pop won't authenticate my password > Did you configure a firewall when you did the install on this > machine? Try "su -" and then "lokkit" which will allow you to > see and modify any > firewall settings. If you set your secutiry setting to the default of > "high" initially, then the firewall won't allow pop3 connections. You > need to allow connections to port 110 for pop3. > > - -- > - -Michael Hi Michael, I thought I had chosen *not* to install a firewall when I first installed RH9 on this machine since I knew it was going to part of a network running under a Linksys router, which has a built-in firewall whose settings you can change (in fact, I'd changed the port settings of the network to allow my just my Linux box's POP/IMAP (i.e. 110), SMTP, HTTP and FTP ports to be accessible outside of the router's firewall. However, when I ran Lokkit as you suggested, I was surprised to see that initial setting was "High". I changed it to "No firewall" (in light of the other network precautions I'd taken as described above), and hit OK. Then I ran Mozilla Mail and tried to retrieve mail through pop again, but the same result as before: after getting "Enter your password for ed@pop" and entering my normal password, I got only "The PASS command did not succeed. Mail server pop responded: Authentication failed." 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
