Re: POP3 daemons in Debian

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] 19980924182616.A11552@deadend.argh.org>,
Alexander Koch <efraim@argh.org> wrote:
>Right now we've qpopper 2.3 who gives me hundreds of warnings in the
>log about auth commands or something (APOP?) - well.

There are two ways of authentication, apop and "standard". I think
some of your clients are first trying APOP authentication, and
then fall back to normal authentication. Just let them turn off
APOP.

BTW, qpopper does support APOP. But it cannot use the standard
password file - you need to add accounts with the "popauth" command.
This is because passwords are encrypted in a very different way.

Mike.
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