"Alex Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your User Name or
>Password was rejected. Server Response: '-ERR' authorization failed".
>(Account: 'TestLinuxBox', POP3 Server:
>'r84aap011904.sbo-nwt.ma.cable.rcn.com', Error Number: 0x00cc92).
>
>So, it seems that pop-3 is a running service, but that checkpassword is not
>reading my /etc/passwd file correctly (I guess).
Try this test from www.qmail.org:
Mark Delany has a clever way to test your checkpassword with a bit of
command line re-direction. For example, with username fred, password
bloggs, printf "fred\0bloggs\0Y123456\0" | /bin/checkpassword /bin/id
3<&0 will execute /bin/id if the password is right.
-Dave