RE: POP access fails for Mac's

Hi Dave,

Here's the results of my testing.

Here's the working inetd.conf entry:

pop3 stream tcp nowait root /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup
dmz.linkzone.com /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir

Question:  What's the difference between qmail-popup and qmail-pop3d?



--All telnets and POP authentication to port 110 work from both PC's and
Mac's.

--Email clients for PC's can both send and recieve mail for users with
regular unix style /etc/passwd accounts with no other qmail configuring
other than maildir.

--The MAC email program will receive mail but cannot send it out using POP
on the qmail server.

--MAC Eudora worked perfectly the first time... just as the PC's did, both
sending and receiving AND... the Mac Eudora was from OUTSIDE my lan.

The only conclusion is that something is wrong with the Mac
implementaion of POP with qmail.



Thanks for your suggestions on this.






On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Dave Kitabjian wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:06:58 -0400
> From: Dave Kitabjian <[email protected]>
> To: Mark Turrin <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: POP access fails for Mac's
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Turrin [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > ...However I can't seem to get my Mac (running OSX)
> > able to send and receive mail using the identical accounts that are
> > succesfull from windows.  Does the Mac mail program use a different
> > authentication?  All test systems are on a local lan.  (I have been
> > successful in the past using the Mac mailer on my old mail server
> which
> > ran sendmail.)
>
>
> Hmm, I use OS X's "Mail" app at home and don't have any such issues.
>
> As Andrew stated, I'd use Q-Cards tutorial to
>
> 	telnet pop.yourdomain.net 110
>
> and see if that works from your Mac, and take it from there...
>
> Dave
>
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Dave Kitabjian wrote:
> >
> > > Check out this section of Q-Cards. It walks you through debugging
> things
> > > like this:
> > >
> > > 	http://www.kitabjian.com/dave/qmailhelp/#Retrieving
> > >
> > > Dave
> > > :)
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Mark Turrin [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:38 PM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: password test failing
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > After installing the checkpassword program I can't get it to pass
> the
> > > pop
> > > > login test showm below when using verified local users and
> passwords.
> > > >
> > > > How can I begin to debug this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Simulate a failed POP login:
> > > >
> > > >      # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup blah /bin/checkpassword pwd
> > > >      +OK <...@blah>
> > > >      user Frodo
> > > >      +OK
> > > >      pass Friend
> > > >      -ERR authorization failed
> > >
> > >
>