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.

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 .