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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#5748: Advanced pop3
From:       Don Sanders <don () sanders ! org>
Date:       2000-07-13 15:44:05
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I spent some time looking into this today.

The trouble (with this server at least) is that it claims to support APOP 
authentication, but when the pop3 kioslave tries to use APOP authentication 
it fails and then the pop server closes the connection.

When I removed the '#define APOP' statement on line 39 of 
kdebase/kio/pop3/pop3.cc (and did a make install, and quit kmail and killed 
off any pop3 slaves that had been started by kdenint) the slave worked ok.

Daniel can you try this on the flay server you had a problem with? Also what 
was the pop server you had trouble with? (I would like to telnet to it to see 
what it's response is).

We need to make the use of APOP authentication optional. I wonder if we can 
add another line to the pop account configuration dialog and what the text 
should be "Use APOP for secure mail download when supported by pop server" 
would be correct (the pop slave has some logic so it's smart enough not to 
try to do APOP if the server indicates it does not support it) but that text 
is too long.

Also George should know about this, but I guess he is still away.

BFN,
Don.

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Don Sanders wrote:
> Right the kioslave system seems broken, it only affects some pop3 accounts.
>
> The bugs were introduce about 6-8 weeks ago. I guess they haven't been
> fixed yet.
>
> BFN,
> Don.
>
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Klaus Reimer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some additional informations to this behaviour:
> >
> > 1. It doesn't matter if the account is the second one. If it is the only
> > one, it is the same.
> >
> > 2. This behaviour is only present if the mailbox is "Advanced POP3". The
> > old POP3-Type is working.
> >
> > 3. This error does only occur with one mail server. Other mail servers
> > are running. As I said, it is a linux server running qmail-pop3d. In my
> > last mail I said, that there is another server running qmail and kmail
> > doesn't have any problems with that server. I have noticed that this
> > server is NOT running qmail-pop3d, it is running cucipop. Maybe
> > qmail-pop3d does something kmail doesn't like.
> >
> > I have created a test account, where you can reproduce this:
> >
> > Server: pop3.ailis.de
> > Account: kmail
> > Password: kmail
> >
> > You can notice, that polling this server is working with a "Standard
> > POP3-Account" all the time but with an "Advanced POP3-Account" it is
> > failing very often and sometimes it is working.
> >
> > I hope this is enough information to find the problem.
> >
> > Bye
> > K

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