Re: Cant pop email on a user account.

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:44:52 -0000

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In alt.os.linux.redhat Jim <jgrago@remove-nospam.twcny.rr.com> suggested:
> I have an active email address help@mydomain.com that is used for my
> incoming helpdesk emails and replies, I never pop this email as there is no
> need to because all email sent to this account is piped through aliases to a
> script. But, I am changing helpdesk scripts and I am going to need to pop
> this email via cron every 5 minutes. The problem is I cant pop it. It makes
> no sense because I changed the password and when I goto pop the mail it
> still prompts me for the password every time. Do I have to remove the entry
> in /etc/passwd and etc/shadow ?

Why would you? There's no need. I'd check the log files of
whatever pop server you are running, perhaps this does over more
clue, perhaps enhance logging and restart (x)inetd presuming your
pop3 server is being started from (x)inetd. There might be
several reasons, like apop authentication is used which usually
doesn't use the users system password. Hard to tell without any
information. 

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