[Dovecot] Authentication error after authentication query (for Eudora 5.2 on Mac)

[Bob Hall]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:55:07AM -0800, Tim Alberts wrote:
> Greetings all, I'm a new user of Dovecot and want to say thanks for the
> great software.
> 
> I am having a problem at the moment. I run a heterogeneous network with
> windows and Mac clients logging into a Fedora Linux 2 box running
> sendmail and previously UW-IMAP, but now Dovecot.  I am using strictly
> pop3, plain authentication with mbox format.  Every computer in the
> network is working fine with this sytem, except 1.  A mac running
> Eurdora mail 5.2.  It gives me an Authentication error every time it
> tries to get mail.

I had a single PC running Eudora 5.2 that suddenly stopped
authenticating. I upgraded Eudora and the problem went away. 

If that's the only mail client that isn't working, then either it's
configured wrong, or the executable file is corrupted. At least, those
are my guesses.

Bob