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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Can't receive mail with a POP account with Yosemite
Date: 31 Jul 2014 00:04:08 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-07-30, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <c3sq63F45r9U2@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the fact that Mail says it is using APOP and the password is
>> incorrect points to settings not being correct. Could it be you have
>> multiple Mail accounts configured for this server, and the log messages
>> are actually from a duplicate account rather than the one you happen to
>> be looking at in Mail Preferences > Accounts?
>
> It looks like Mail uses APOP whenever the POP server indicates that it 
> supports this.

Yeah, maybe.

> According to RFC 1460, the server indicates this ability 
> by including <process-ID.clock@hostname> in the initial greeting banner.
>
> If you look at the two log files Michelle sent, the one from the server 
> she's having a problem with sends this greeting banner:
>
> +OK <421.1406704763@pop.secureserver.net>
>
> while the one that works OK sends:
>
> +OK fed1rmfepo101 InterMail POP3 server ready.
>
> The first one indicates that APOP is supported.

Good catch. So that's probably what's going on. It could be the server
is simply improperly configured in some way so that APOP sessions fail.
An email to the email provider may be in order here.

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