Mail server question

In updating FreeBSD to a 5.5 resting place on the way to
6.2, sendmail went from 
8.12.11 --> 8.13.6. Three users could not connect without
deleting or tinkering 
with their client profile to force the client side to
reenter the password. One 
was only fixed by  setting up a new account. the three users
from from an office 
with about 40 others that worked fine.

All the affected users were using POP3, two thunderbirds,
and an Outlook 
Express. The troublesome use was POP3 with Eudora. No one
else noticed [which 
was sorta what I was hoping for  ]

I hope this is not too off topic, but I know of no other
place to pose the 
question with any hope for an answer. Thank for any
thoughts. I think I can rule 
out local firewalls because the office admin is very savy
and would have told 
me. I ruled that out in the one I worked on. That one
literally went from old 
account fails to new one works with nothing in between.


Doug Denault
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On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:02 AM, doug wrote:
> In updating FreeBSD to a 5.5 resting place on the way
to 6.2,  
> sendmail went from 8.12.11 --> 8.13.6. Three users
could not  
> connect without deleting or tinkering with their client
profile to  
> force the client side to reenter the password. One was
only fixed  
> by  setting up a new account. the three users from from
an office  
> with about 40 others that worked fine.
>
> All the affected users were using POP3, two
thunderbirds, and an  
> Outlook Express. The troublesome use was POP3 with
Eudora. No one  
> else noticed [which was sorta what I was hoping for
 ]

Are you talking about them having problems reading mail, or
sending  
mail?

If it's the former, the change to sendmail is not relevant,
as  
reading mail is handled by your POP3 daemon.  Check your
mailserver  
logfiles for more information, and ask more questions here
if you  
don't find anything obvious there.  Of course, you'll need
to quote  
parts of these log files or provide client-side error
messages if you  
want us to have enough information to provide more specific
advice.

-- 
-Chuck

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On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:02 AM, doug wrote:
> > In updating FreeBSD to a 5.5 resting place on the
way to 6.2,
> > sendmail went from 8.12.11 --> 8.13.6. Three
users could not
> > connect without deleting or tinkering with their
client profile to
> > force the client side to reenter the password. One
was only fixed
> > by  setting up a new account. the three users from
from an office
> > with about 40 others that worked fine.
> >
> > All the affected users were using POP3, two
thunderbirds, and an
> > Outlook Express. The troublesome use was POP3 with
Eudora. No one
> > else noticed [which was sorta what I was hoping
for  ]
>
> Are you talking about them having problems reading
mail, or sending
> mail?
>
> If it's the former, the change to sendmail is not
relevant, as
> reading mail is handled by your POP3 daemon.  Check
your mailserver
> logfiles for more information, and ask more questions
here if you
> don't find anything obvious there.  Of course, you'll
need to quote
> parts of these log files or provide client-side error
messages if you
> want us to have enough information to provide more
specific advice.
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
Ah - yes reading, silly of me. We were are are still using
the Univ of
Washington daemon.  imap-uw-2001a,1 ==> imap-uw-2004g_1,1

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