Re: [Evolution] can't authentificate on pop3 accounts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

I've talked to Marius a bunch about this, it seems evo is sending the
wrong password for some of the hosts.  Even after asking for a new one,
etc.

He's using 0.10, has that been fixed since?

The thing is, it sometimes works, so i dont think its any protocol
problem.

On 04 Jul 2001 12:46:12 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Is the password given with the PASS command correct? It should be plain
> text...
>
> I'm wondering if maybe the POP daemon is expecting the password to be in
> quotes (or perhaps hex encoded for all/part of the password?) since it
> contains (perhaps) illegal chars?
> I dunno, I'm just guessing here.
>
> I can check the RFCs if the password is correct to see if we need to do
> that.
>
> If it's incorrect, then is it giving just random junk? is it giving a
> password to one of your other pop accounts? is it chopping off part of
> the correct password?
>
> Jeff
>
> On 04 Jul 2001 15:50:23 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> > Hmm, you could try snooping the network to see WHAT it is sending as the
> > password perhaps?
> >
> > It could be some sort of inter-thread problem, Jeff, any ideas?
> >
> >
> > On 03 Jul 2001 16:57:50 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > > On 03 Jul 2001 20:34:39 +0930, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > In a separate window, try setting the env variable
> > > > CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1, then running evolution-mail in it, after a few
> > > ok, here it is
> > >
> > > I've enabled those 2 accounts again and it worked fine for a while.
> > > But then one of them start saying bad login (password was set to 
> > > be remembered, so I didn't entered a wrong one), and keeps saying
> > > that after I enter the password in the prompt. Netscape works.
> > >
> > > sending : USER marius
> > > received: +OK User name accepted, password please
> > > sending : PASS xxxx
> > > received: -ERR Bad login
> > >
> > > Hmm, how helpful is this? Talked with our sysadmin, the remote server
> > > is working fine, we believe evolution is sending the password bad.
> > > (it's mixed case, letters, numbers and punctuation marks)
> > >
> > > -- 
> > > Marius Andreiana
> >
> >
> >
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