Since some clients want capabilities to be described (e.g. KMail complains that it can't determine UIDL support), I implemented the "CAPA" command as per RFC 2449. The capabilities set also includes "pass" (it's identical to NGPopper's). See http://www.acm.jhu.edu/~trisk/popa3d-1.0-capa.diff -Trisk
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:40:06PM -0700, N.Cat wrote: > Since some clients want capabilities to be described (e.g. KMail complains > that it can't determine UIDL support), I was unaware that such clients existed. Although adding CAPA support to popa3d has been on TODO for years, I was not planning on doing that until popa3d would have to say anything beyond RFC 1939's definitions. (*) > I implemented the "CAPA" command as per RFC 2449. > The capabilities set also includes "pass" (it's identical to NGPopper's). RFC 2449 doesn't define a capability named PASS. Unless there's a client which depends on it, I would rather not declare it. (*) Well, frankly, I was about to add CAPA support into popa3d in 1999, but then put it on the back burner. There are also some problems with RFC 2449 (especially with PIPELINING) that noone has bothered to comment on (let alone fix them in a subsequent revision of the RFC): http://www.imc.org/ietf-pop3ext/mail-archive/msg00083.html Thanks, -- -- Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com> GPG key ID: B35D3598 fp: 6429 0D7E F130 C13E C929 6447 73C3 A290 B35D 3598 http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments Was I helpful? Please give your feedback here: http://rate.affero.net/solar(Continue reading)
On Friday 26 August 2005 06:47 am, Solar Designer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:40:06PM -0700, N.Cat wrote: > > Since some clients want capabilities to be described (e.g. KMail > > complains that it can't determine UIDL support), > > I was unaware that such clients existed. Although adding CAPA support > to popa3d has been on TODO for years, I was not planning on doing that > until popa3d would have to say anything beyond RFC 1939's definitions. (*) > I think it's a good idea to advertise the capabilities for commands defined as optional in RFC 1939. This prevents clients from making incorrect assumptions if they don't resort to extensive probing with CAPA unavailable. > > I implemented the "CAPA" command as per RFC 2449. > > The capabilities set also includes "pass" (it's identical to NGPopper's). > > RFC 2449 doesn't define a capability named PASS. Unless there's a > client which depends on it, I would rather not declare it. Right. That should be unnecessary since the USER tag is supposed to indicate support for the PASS command. > (*) Well, frankly, I was about to add CAPA support into popa3d in 1999, > but then put it on the back burner. There are also some problems with > RFC 2449 (especially with PIPELINING) that noone has bothered to comment > on (let alone fix them in a subsequent revision of the RFC): > > http://www.imc.org/ietf-pop3ext/mail-archive/msg00083.html(Continue reading)
I am running RH ES v4 and I have installed the RPM of popa3d. I can connect via command line and see messages in my list, and read them . . . but I'm trying to get my Thunderbird client on another machine to connect. I have created the account in t-bird's account list, it prompts me for a password, then gives a popup saying "server says invlaid login." I can send via t-bird, I'm using Postfix on the server so I know its actually connecting to the machine. And Postfix processes incoming emails into the mailbox, but T-bird just can't get them. Any help, or pointing to documentation, would be appreciated. I have relatively little Unix experience and I'm trying to make a point about getting our servers off Windows, this doesn't help! Thanks . . .
On 8/29/05, Jim Mirick <jrmpublic@...> wrote: > I am running RH ES v4 and I have installed the RPM of popa3d. I can connect via > command line and see messages in my list, and read them . . . but I'm trying to > get my Thunderbird client on another machine to connect. Judging by the above, this is a thunderbird issue, not a popa3d issue. > Any help, or pointing to documentation, would be appreciated. I'd suggest the relevant thunderbird documentation and/or requesting help from a mailing list that deals with thunderbird issues. (Also: take a look at the popa3d syslog output, that might give you a clue as to what is causing your problem.)
Are you getting any popa3d messages in the logs (/var/log/messages, probably)? If not, check the firewall settings (probably either ipchains or iptables). RedHat might not allow access to the pop3 port by default. You may have to add a new rule to allow for it. Dave On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:46:14PM +0000, Jim Mirick wrote: > I am running RH ES v4 and I have installed the RPM of popa3d. I can connect via > > command line and see messages in my list, and read them . . . but I'm trying to > > get my Thunderbird client on another machine to connect. I have created the > > account in t-bird's account list, it prompts me for a password, then gives a > > popup saying "server says invlaid login." I can send via t-bird, I'm using > > Postfix on the server so I know its actually connecting to the machine. And > > Postfix processes incoming emails into the mailbox, but T-bird just can't get > them. > > Any help, or pointing to documentation, would be appreciated. I have relatively > > little Unix experience and I'm trying to make a point about getting our servers > > off Windows, this doesn't help! Thanks . . .(Continue reading)
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:46:14PM +0000, Jim Mirick wrote: > Any help, or pointing to documentation, would be appreciated. I > have relatively little Unix experience and I'm trying to make a > point about getting our servers off Windows, this doesn't help! Jim, One of the main rules of unix system administrator is: "Watch logs!" You should configure your syslog to write popa3d's log messages into separate file. Say, /var/log/popa3d.log. man syslog man syslog.conf -- -- boco
Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson <hhg <at> ...> writes: > > On 8/29/05, Jim Mirick <jrmpublic <at> ...> wrote: > > I am running RH ES v4 and I have installed the RPM of popa3d. I can connect via > > command line and see messages in my list, and read them . . . but I'm trying to > > get my Thunderbird client on another machine to connect. > > Judging by the above, this is a thunderbird issue, not a popa3d issue. > > > Any help, or pointing to documentation, would be appreciated. > > I'd suggest the relevant thunderbird documentation and/or requesting > help from a mailing list that deals with thunderbird issues. > > (Also: take a look at the popa3d syslog output, that might give you a > clue as to what is causing your problem.) > > Thunderbird can connect to other mail servers with no problem, so it wouldn't seem to be the client program, but good point of course. . .
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:26:19PM +0000, Jim Mirick wrote:
> Thunderbird can connect to other mail servers with no problem,
> so it wouldn't seem to be the client program, but good point
> of course. . .
Given that you're on RHEL, this is very likely a packet filtering
("firewall") setup issue, as correctly pointed out by Dave Oksner.
Please invoke the following command as root and see if it helps:
service iptables stop
Please also review your logs and let us (popa3d-users) know if you find
any messages from popa3d in there.
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>popup saying "server says invlaid login." Are you sure it isn't a cached password issue in thunderbird? hotdiggedgdog *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 29/08/2005 at 2:46 pm Jim Mirick wrote: >I am running RH ES v4 and I have installed the RPM of popa3d. I can >connect via > >command line and see messages in my list, and read them . . . but I'm >trying to > >get my Thunderbird client on another machine to connect. I have created >the > >account in t-bird's account list, it prompts me for a password, then gives >a > >popup saying "server says invlaid login." I can send via t-bird, I'm using > >Postfix on the server so I know its actually connecting to the machine. >And > >Postfix processes incoming emails into the mailbox, but T-bird just can't >get >them.(Continue reading)
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