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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: qpop
Date: 30 May 1995 13:27:18 +0200
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WADA Tatsuaki <wada@ee.ibaraki.ac.jp> wrote:
>I'm trying to use a qpop2.1.4-r1 on FreeBSD 2.0R.
>It seems that the pop server was correctly starting.
>But it did not accept my password.
Just guessing: you're using the default MD5 password encryption, but
your pop server is stupid enough to expect passwords to be of some
limited length (e.g., 11 characters for DES).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)