user unable to fetch mail
I have a user that can has a valid username and password but cannot retrieve mail from the server as it keeps throwing a wrong passwrod error. The users password has been reset and it will still not work. please forgive me as i am a n00b. I am still learning about this stuff. (i am sooo glad that LQ exists!!!!) :)
i am using sendmail. with is on server A which in turn uses fetchmail to retrieve mail from server B. The mail is being successfully retrieved from server B as i can see the new mail in the users mailbox in /var/spool/mail which is on server A. confused yet? thanks heaps in advance... have i givin enough info? Cheers, Glenn Mitchell |
Have you enabled POP3 /IMAP services on your server ? These can be enabled by setting enabled = yes in the /etc/xinetd.d folder.
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yeah it has been enabled as there are about 20 other users who have no problem fetching their mail.
is there a per user setting to control pop access? |
try connecting directly to the pop port on the server and check the error it gives.
POP commands you can use in sequence is #telnet hostname 110 user yourusername pass yourpassword There is no special user specific setting for POP users by default. But you could see the contents of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files . |
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