On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Ferlito wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:05:36PM +1100, Martin wrote: > > It almost looks like I have the password wrong, but I have double > > checked, (I don't). Any ideas? > > yep it thinks you have the password wrong. Two things to try. > First no matter what the telstra guy wrote down the password is most > likely all lower case so give that a go. See if you have any more luch > with PAP authentication by adding refuse-chap to your options file. Make > sure your password entry is in pap-secrets and chap-secrets or do what I > do and make one a link to the other. > > And you can use your old fasion net connection to test your > password with the following > > telnet pop-server.bigpond.net.au 110 > user writeme > password password > > and see if it authenticates you. Failing all that call telstra What I did was simply add my new mail account to my ~/.fetchmailrc file. It picked up my new mail (in fact a message informing me that I had successfully changed mu username and password with no problems). So the account name and password is not the problem. Honestly, I'm totally stumped. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
