pop3 unable to authenticate on solaris 10 mail server

After typing....

USER me PASS mypassword

I receive the error noted in my original post while interacting with pop3....

-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command

Truss echo's the typing to the screen, but doesn't reveal any clues as to why AUTHORIZATION is failing.

Is my /etc/pam.conf OK? Its POP3 lines look like this based upon an example I found on-line....:

pop3auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass

pop3account required pam_unix.so

pop3session required pam_permit.so

Although, after looking in /usr/lib/security,...I noticed that "pam_unix.so" and "pam_permit.so" didn't exist. Isn't that were they're supposed to be?

I then changed the pop3 lines to look the following based upon what did exist in /usr/lib/security....:

pop3auth required pam_unix_auth.so try_first_pass

pop3account required pam_unix_account.so

pop3session required pam_permit_session.so

I still got the "-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command" error after I did this -- did I need to stop and restart anything to get the OS to re-read the pam.conf?

What else could it be?

homeslicea at 2007-7-12 8:56:16 >

Hey, thanks for replying...yeah, I tried that too, and still got the same error.

Since then, I've downloaded and compiled qpopper and I can now connect to the server from the client and authenticate -- horray!

But, it appears I have another problem that is not related to POP or qpopper -- my solaris sendmail server won't relay mail from the clients. So, only internal mail works from the clients. When you're on the server, inbound and outbound mail works to and from the wan, just not from the clients.

Any ideas how to turn on relay capability in sendmail on solaris?(maybe I should post this as another question)

Thanks,

-h

homeslicea at 2007-7-12 8:56:16 >