[Techtalk] evolution and ipop3d

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:05:26AM +0000, Meredydd Luff wrote:
> That's officially Ximian's fault - I was looking up the RFC the other day, 
> and a POP server only *needs* to support the message retrieval and deletion 
> commands, and though it's not unreasonable to require it to support USER and 
> PASS authentication methods, your server is behaving completely within spec 
> there, and Evolution is behaving very antisocially. BAD client!

I think your diagnosis is incorrect. Look at the log below and see that
what it doesn't understand is the CAPA command (no problem, it just
falls back to normal username and password stuff after that). The POP
server claims that it _does_ understand USER and PASS (see the third
line).

> On Thursday 07 November 2002 00:21, k.clair wrote:
> > -
> > - 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: +OK POP3 pop1.serve.com
> > - v2001.80 server ready
> > -
> > - 207.245.070.094.27021-207.008.152.146.09999: CAPA
> > -
> > - 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: -ERR Invalid command, try
> > one - of: USER name, PASS string, APOP name digest, QUIT
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> > -
> > -
> > - 207.245.070.094.27021-207.008.152.146.09999: USER testing3
> > -
> > - 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: +OK User name accepted,
> > - password please
> > -
> > - 207.245.070.094.27021-207.008.152.146.09999: QUIT
> > -
> > - 207.008.152.146.09999-207.245.070.094.27021: +OK Sayonara

So the Evolution client sent the username correctly, but did not send
the password (it send a QUIT command instead). I do not know why that is
happening, though.

Malcolm
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