Re: qpopper and Solaris 10...

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:30:38PM -0700, Gregory Hicks wrote:
> Greetings:
> 
> I'm trying to bring up a new (replacement) mail server.  I've copied
> the old, Solaris 7 qpopper to the new machine and have inetd starting
> it.
> 
> However, I cannot login.  But CAN login via telnet.  But not via telnet
> to pop3...  I get the following error:
> 
> metis% telnet mailhub-2 pop3
> Trying 158.140.128.174...
> Connected to mailhub-2.cadence.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK Qpopper (version 4.0.5) at mailhub-2.cadence.com starting.  
> user ghicks
> +OK Password required for ghicks.
> pass XxxxxxxX
> -ERR [AUTH] Password supplied for "ghicks" is incorrect.
> 
> Any thoughts on what is not configured correctly?  I get the same
> approximate error when trying to connect to the uw-imapd daemon...
> 
> Assist will be appreciated.

Probably your PAM is not configured for these services on the new
machine.  I'm not familiar with the Solaris dir structure, but at a wild
guess, I'd look at /etc/pam.d or similar for the two machines.
  -- Clifton