pop3 problems

[David Southwell]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:12:01 you wrote:
> On Mi, 04 Apr 2007 David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net> babbled:
> > I am trying to get pop3 working on freebsd 6.1 but am having no success.
> >
> > mail ports installed:
> > [root at dns1 /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw]# pkg_info |grep mail
> > cclient-2004g,1     Mark Crispin's C-client mail access routines
> > imap-uw-2004g_1,1   University of Washington IMAP4rev1/POP2/POP3 mail
> > servers maildrop-2.0.2      Mail delivery agent (MDA) with filtering
> > abilities postfix-2.3.8,1     A secure alternative to widely-used
> > Sendmail [root at dns1 /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw]#
> >
> >
> > In inetd I have:
> > pop2    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/ipop2d  
> > ipop2d pop3    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/ipop3d 
> >  ipop3d imap4   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/imapd 
> >   imapd When connections are attempted there is no response from the
> > server.
> >
> > When an attempt is made to connect to pop3 the server is found,
> > connection is made but there is a problem with password verification.
> >
> > Can anyone help me identify the problem. I have not been able to find a
> > check list to help.
> >
> > How do I get logging information for pop3?
> >
> > Thanks david
>
> The log messages are in /var/log/messages
Thanks for getting back to me -- its appreciated.

I had looked before posting -- but no messages from pop3 :-( -- nor any 
indication there was an attempt to connect.. do I need to change a config 
file somewhere?
>
> The problem could be that UW disables the LOGIN feature per default so
> only encrypted logins are accepted (should be Auth TLS in your clients).
> Another option is to use pop3s instead of pop3 - works fine with the
> UW daemons so far.

OK I'll try that and report back

Thanks

David