popa3d-users - Re: Suddenly, won't authenticate

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:23:56 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Suddenly, won't authenticate

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:54:45AM -0500, James R. Mirick wrote:
> (Sorry about the HTML, I assume this is now plain text?)

Yes, it is - thank you!

> The mailbox size was only 150K, I reduced it to zero (just deleted the 
> contents via the mail server's console) and it still fails. 

OK, let's proceed further.  Can you please post the output of -

	ls -ld /var/spool/mail{,/jrm}

to this mailing list such that we can see whether the permissions on the
directory and the file are correct?

Do you have other mailboxes on this server?  If so, are you able to
access them via popa3d?

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