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Hi: I have upgraded my mail server to SuSE 9.2 and sendmail as provided in SuSE's disks. The problem is my users can no longer pop their email, since kmail responds with a "Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command" error. Trying to add a ssl certificate also results in an error. Mail is leaving to its intended destination, so SMTP is working, and local mail is handled correctly. I think it has to do with plain text passwords no longer beeing allowed. Telnet to myserver.com port 110, and issuing user username yields: -ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command I have searched the archives, and although this problem has been reported, I could not find a definitive answer. Can somebody point to reading that would solve this problem? Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC www.acyc.com - www.clshonduras.com - SolCom - www.acycdomains.com
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Sun, 12 Dec 2004, by alfredo@clshonduras.com:
Hi:
I have upgraded my mail server to SuSE 9.2 and sendmail as provided in SuSE's disks. The problem is my users can no longer pop their email, since kmail responds with a "Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command" error. Trying to add a
Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, not a POP3 server.
ssl certificate also results in an error. Mail is leaving to its intended destination, so SMTP is working, and local mail is handled correctly. I think
Thus the MTA is working correctly.
it has to do with plain text passwords no longer beeing allowed. Telnet to myserver.com port 110, and issuing user username yields:
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command
Sounds like you didn't provide the right authentication.
I have searched the archives, and although this problem has been reported, I could not find a definitive answer. Can somebody point to reading that would solve this problem?
Check to see what changed in your POP server config. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: gurp@nedlinux.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +
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Alfredo Cole wrote:
I have upgraded my mail server to SuSE 9.2 and sendmail as provided in SuSE's disks. The problem is my users can no longer pop their email, since kmail responds with a "Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command" error. Trying to add a ssl certificate also results in an error. Mail is leaving to its intended destination, so SMTP is working, and local mail is handled correctly. I think it has to do with plain text passwords no longer beeing allowed. Telnet to myserver.com port 110,
You would need to start pop3s in xinetd, and use port 995. It is because plain text passwords are only allowed via a ssl encrypted session. You can read for more by searching for imaps at the portal or checking out the imap source
and issuing user username yields:
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command
I have searched the archives, and although this problem has been reported, I could not find a definitive answer. Can somebody point to reading that would solve this problem?
If you already have generated an ssl certificate ipop3d.pem, and started pop3s in xinetd, and use 995, it should work just fine. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
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Alfredo Cole
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