At 9:59 AM -0500 3/1/06, Lisa Casey wrote:

 And of course, when a customer
 attempts to pop mail  while a pop lock is present for his mailbox the
 customer gets a "password error" on his end

I forgot to mention in my previous reply that Qpopper supports the RESP-CODES and AUTH-RESP-CODE extensions, which have been around for some years now. These extensions allow the client to unambiguously determine which errors during or after authentication are in fact user credential errors and which are not. Thus, the client can avoid prompting for the password unless it is likely to help.

The fact that more clients don't support this is unfortunate, especially given how little work it is likely to be for the client vendor.

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