Re: POP3 Authentication

Thanks for yur reply.

First, I am trying to set up POP3 on a Red Hat Fedora Core 3 machine

I was using "Linux Troubleshooting Bible" by Christopher Negus.

ON page 508, here is what he says to do :

telnet localhost 110

When you get acknowledgment , enter "user .. my name"

The returning prompt is "OK username accepted, password please"

I enter my password and get the message

"ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION State Command"

I tried your method, but I get the same ERR message.

What is strange is when I enter the same commands on my Red Hat 9
machine
where POP3 DOES work, I get the same error message - but I can use POP3
just fine to get my mail to my workstation.

POP3 files are installed in the following locations

/etc/xinetd.d/ipop3
/usr/sbin/ipop3d
/etc/pam.d/pop and /etc/pam.d/pop3

Any help would be appreciated.

OCDave

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