Re: Puzzling pop lock files

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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