> I guess at some point all the services go through some shared dll or > service to query the user+password info.
DLLs cannot be shared by different processes--a separate copy is loaded in the process space of each daemon, so auth-related failures are confined to a single process at a time. Of course, the same failure may occur across processes and DLLs at the same time (loss of ODBC connectivity, SAM corruption, whatever), but this would not be a case of one daemon "infecting" others. > but, we have had many instances, over the years, where people reported only > SMTP AUTH failures without saying anything about POP failures. Eric's test was the best. If the server is not announcing AUTH support, clients will not send AUTH credentials. There are also situations in which SMTPD ceases to recognize the ESMTP AUTH commands, whether or not they are announced. None of these are happy situations, but, in all cases, Telnet will give you a much firmer grasp of which is going on. -Sandy To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
