Questions about UW POP/IMAP

[donovan]

greetings
sorry for the cross post. this question is also in the Mail forum.

i am following the this Article:
https://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/postfix2.html

I have just completed Step 1

xinetd has started and i have a running pid. Now,…
i guess the IMAP/POP file are already installed because i never installed them. i only upgraded pine to 4.55 ( as per the Article)

When the User trys to access the pop or imap account the username or password is not recognized. Since my user exists only in Netinfo do i have to export him to a flatfile? ( I don’t think i should have to do this ).
osx 10.2.6 server

any assistance is helpful.

[donovan]

ok check this out?

[noc-100:~] donovan% telnet 209.96.96.3 110
Trying 209.96.96.3…
Connected to mailx.beth.k12.pa.us.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
+OK POP3 mailx.beth.k12.pa.us v2003.83 server ready
user donovan
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command

I’m pretty sure i compiled without SSL. This happened the last time I did an install. i followed the instructions and I get the same results.
BTW this is osx server, not that it should make a difference.

[donovan]

ok,…after a few brain bashers

I removed all the binaries and src
unpacked again
./build clean

./build osx

it still did not work. So i went to the /var/mail directory (where i had my test accounts) 2 users were there holmer and marge. Dleted them, restarted the whole damn box and Whamo!!

— friggin thingy worked. pop and imap
now,… can anyone tell me where i can get some good info on setting up imap folders for peoples. As I can see,… it assumes the entire users home folder as the place to store mail. i would like to simplify the options for storage for my clients.

tnx

[Anonymous]

I got the same:
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command

And I run the procedures by the book, and postfix is UP but noone can send nor retrieve mail, I have another question, how can a include the /usr/local/bin into the PATH ?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

The AUTHORIZATION problem still ocurs, the POSTFIX problem was due to main.cf configuration.

How to fix the AUTHORIZATION PROBLEM ?

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