SUMMARY: changing passwords from eudora (server running smail)

From: Clara Hatem (clara@inco.com.lb)
Date: Wed Nov 05 1997 - 09:19:31 CST


Hye, i asked on friday october 17:
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> Hello.
>
> I was wondering if you could help me with this issue:
> I have a netra 150 server running solaris , and smail mail server.
> the problem is : When trying to change pop passwords from a pc on the
> lan running eudora 3.0, I get an error message stating that
>
> ** Could not connect to "netrabau.bau.edu.lb" (the mail server
on
> sun netra i 150)
>
> Cause: connection refused (10061). **
>
> I did some investigation and got to the point that maybe poppassd
> (listens to port 107) might be missing on my system.
> So I tried on another server (server 2) that doesn't have the
problem,
> and when changing the password from eudora, and simultaneously doing a

> ps -ef | grep poppassd on the server (server2) , I couldn't see
> anything.
>
> What do you think ??? has anyone ever faced this problem ??? how to
> solve it ??? and what is the daemon process that is responsible of
> changing email pop passwords ???
>
> I will summarize.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Clara

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the asnwer was to download poppassd from
ftp.eudora.com/eudora/servers/unix/password

and install it on the netra server

thanks for all those who answered.
and if you are wondering why it took me so much to summarize,
well........lucky me: I was in vacation !!!!!

thanks,
Clara

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Clara Hatem
Corporate Projects Engineer
IncoNet sal
Beirut - Lebanon
Phone:  961-1-582000
Fax:    961-1-563286
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