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[Bartydeux <bartydeux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Just one incident that happened today.

At work I have a Postfix e-mail servor on SuSE 7.1 that has worked without 
problem for two months.

This morning I decided to reboot it for now forgotten reasons.

After rebooting, I want to get my mail on another host and I have, with 
kmail, the following answer:


> I said:
>   "PASS <your password>"
> 
> And then the server said:
> "ERR-invalid login"
> 

Postfix did not accept my password anymore.

I spent the whole day trying to understand why.

I must say that I spent many days trying (without success) to install 
Cyrus-Imap.

Finally I try a telnet:

telnet <servor_address> 110
+OK lx93 Cyrus POP3 V2,0.R server ready
user abarthel
+OK Name is a valid mailbox
pass ....
+OK Maildrop locked and ready
list
+OK  (but nothing appears although the mailbox is full)
	etc...

What astonished me was to read Cyrus POP3 V2,0.R server
Why Cyrus POP3? I forgot which server was announced before.

Thus I go in /etc/rc.config  where I read the following line:

START_CYRUS=yes

I change yes => no then inits and init2

I try again and miracle!! I can get my mail again.

I don't understand because Cyrus-Imap should not interfere with POP3
Secondly I often typed <rccyrus start> before without changes

Tomorrow, I'll type again START_CYRUS=yes in /etc/rc.config hoping to be 
finally able to use Imap

Does anybody have an answer for that problem?
It is obviouly a problem of password but which one?
-- 
Alain Barthélemy

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