qpopper error

[Charles Howse]

I plan to use qpopper to retrieve root's mail (which I have aliased  
to 'charles').
I will use my home lan to connect to the FBSD box from my Mac, and  
read the mail.
"Charles" is indeed a valid user on the FBSD box.  I ssh to that box  
as charles, and am logged in as charles right now.

On Jun 20, 2005, at 9:28 AM, fbsd_user wrote:

> First of all I have qpopper running on 4.10 and 5.4 with out any
> problems. I installed the package version.
>
> Second that error message is saying that user charles is not a valid
> user on the ISP where you are telling qpopper to fetch the mail
> from.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Charles
> Howse
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 8:53 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: qpopper error
>
>
> Hi,
> In my research before posting this question, I saw this same
> question
> in numerous places, but I never saw a resolution!
>
> I have qpopper 4.0.5 running from inetd on FBSD 4.11.
> I start it thus: /usr/local/libexec/qpopper
> When I connect from my Mac to check my mail, I see the following in
> /
> var/log/messages:
>
> Jun 19 19:45:18 moe qpopper[199]: charles at 192.168.254.3
> (192.168.254.3): -ERR
> [SYS/TMP] POP authentication DB not abailable (user charles): No
> such
> file or directory (2)
>
> Anyone have any ideas what's wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
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Thanks,
Charles