At 3:48 PM +0300 10/31/01, Oleg Savostyanov wrote: > I got a problem with Qpopper 4.0.3 > I configured it with a flag --enable-apop=/etc/pop.auth --enable-popuid=pop > as it says in manual to enable APOP authentication, > but since that any MS Outlook Express 5.0 client > cant conect to the server with the following err.: > > There was a problem logging onto your mail server. > Your User Name was rejected. Account: 'XXX', Server: > 'XXX', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR [AUTH] > You must use stronger authentication such as AUTH SCRAM-MD5 > or APOP to connect to this server', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, > Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91 > > Is that a case of MS? > Or I'am doing smth. wrong? > Can you help me with this?
This error happens if you enable APOP and set an APOP password for a user, but that user's client can't do APOP. If the user tries a client that does support APOP (such as Eudora), it will work.
