RE: pop won't authenticate my password

From: Ben Yau (byau_at_cardcommerce.com)
Date: 01/20/04

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:44:08 -0800

    Wow ...
    this thread has just blown into something gargantuan hasn't it? :D

    Ed (first Ed), you might want to give us some history about mccorduck.ws so
    we can understand the bigger picture. And also let us know what it is you
    want to do. For example:

    1) where/how did you register the name?
    2) is the company you registered the name with going to house your primary
    DNS? Or is that something you wnated to do on your machine ? If the answer
    is that you don't know, that's fine. We might be able to answer from
    knowing the answer to #1
    3) did you want to serve the mail from your own machine? (and house the
    incoming mail of mccorduck.ws on your own machine?)

    >From all the emails, it seems the answer to 3) would be yes.

    It looks like network solutions whois only recognizes that the domain is
    taken but it doesn't seem like there is any name server entries set up. On
    nslookup from my machine it recognizes that there is a mccorduck.ws. address
    (24.24.15.155) and the NS record points back to itself. So my guess is
    that you have only just registered your name and somehow managed to get an
    address record in there and that's it. This means that mccordck.ws. has not
    been set up to recognize mail seriving or DNS serving.

    The NS record I had from nslookup for your domian (from my work PC) was:

    mccorduck.ws. IN NS mccorduck.ws.

    anyway, what this means is :

    To serve and read mail from your machine you'd need to
    1a) register your machine mccorduck.ws. as a valid nameserver
    OR
    1b) find someone to be your primary nameserver (there are a lot of companies
    who will do this, including possibly the company you registered your domain
    with)

    If 1a) and not 1b), then
    2) run a nameserver (most likely BIND) on your machine

    Finally, you also need to:
    3) Include an MX record for your domain to point to your machine.
    4) then run sendmail (which it seems you are doing) to accept mail as
    mccorduck.ws. (Cw definition)
    5)then run pop3 so you can access the email (this is surprisingly the
    easiest part)

    It seems like only step 5 is finished and step 4 is half-way finished
    (sendmail is running, not sure if it will accept as mccorduck.ws.). And it
    also seems like steps 1 through 3 have not been attempted yet.

    Let me know if this sounds correct. Sorry for the confusing style of my
    post. Hopefully it makes sense.

    Ben Yau 

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