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From: perry@jpunix.com (John A. Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Why doesn't POP work?
Date: 29 Oct 1994 18:28:49 -0500
Organization: J. P. and Associates
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I finally got MH to compile. It turned out to be a typo on my part. Now
that I have it compiled with POP support, it's not working as advertised.
Here's a dump of what's happening:
jpunix:perry {113} inc -host jpunix.com
inc: -ERR Password supplied for "perry" is incorrect.
It was my understanding (according to Nutshell's MH and xmh book) that
inc, msgchk and the other programs that are POP-aware were supposed to
prompt me for my password. As you can see above, inc is not doing that.
Here is a copy of my MH file at compile time. Can someone tell me why I'm
not being prompted for the password?
# @(#)$Id: MH,v 1.7 1990/04/06 09:44:31 sources Exp $
# a 4.2BSD VAX system running SendMail
bin /usr/local/bin
bboards off
etc /usr/local/lib/mh
mail /var/mail
manuals standard
mts sendmail/smtp
mandir /usr/local/man
chown /usr/bin/chown
cc /usr/bin/cc
ccoptions -O -traditional
ldoptlibs -lcrypt
pop on
popdir /usr/local/etc
signal void
sprintf int
options BSD42 BSD43 DBMPWD BIND MORE='"/usr/bin/more"' NORUSERPASS
options NTOHLSWAP SYS5DIR VSPRINTF ZONEINFO MHE MHRC MIME OVERHEAD POSIX
options WHATNOW POPSERVICE='"pop3"'
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