Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:17:47AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > I don't understand this. I thought that in a normal setup, tcpserver forked
> > qmail-popup, which exec's checkpassword
>
> Not quite. qmail-popup forks and exec's checkpassword, in order that if
> checkpassword fails qmail-popup can report an -ERR message instead of
> just disconnecting silently.
Thanks for the correction, Bruce -- makes much more sense. However, it still
doesn't explain why the other fellows' ntcheckpassword hangs around
indefinitely even after authentication success, and then causes the POP3
connection to reset after 60 seconds.
Moral: NT causes headaches.
Charles
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