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Re: po15 mail testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Feb 26 11:15:58 2009
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:39 -0500, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> I just installed Eudora for Mac, from a package jdreed provided. I'm able
> to get my mail on both po15.mail.mit.edu (= geofft.po15.csail) and on
> po15.mit.edu, so I'm slightly confused what's not supposed to work...
> (Both use POP, and thus Kerberos 4.)
I asked Mark for clarification on this point, since it never made much
sense that KPOP clients would be blocking an IMAP feature. The answer I
got was:
1. The problem only applies to (unspecified) ancient versions of Eudora
2. The problem is with Eudora IMAP, not Eudora KPOP.
So, it may be difficult to reproduce the failure on po15.mail or verify
that it works on po15, unless jdreed can dig out old versions of Eudora.
But the situation at least makes more sense.
The fact that po15 is running an unencrypted POP3 daemon which supports
password authentication is probably a bug.
