I've got a SuSE 9.0 box which will have a very small amount of users on
it. I'm trying to setup Postfix and Courier to send and receive mail
for these system users. I think I have everything working expect when
Thunderbird trys to grab POP mail off of the server, I keep getting
asked for a password. I've double checked passwords several times yet I
can't get passed this auth.

What am I missing? What steps should I follow to setup system users to
receive email?

Thanks,
MePH

mephitic@gmail.com wrote:
> I've got a SuSE 9.0 box which will have a very small amount of users on
> it. I'm trying to setup Postfix and Courier to send and receive mail
> for these system users. I think I have everything working expect when
> Thunderbird trys to grab POP mail off of the server, I keep getting
> asked for a password. I've double checked passwords several times yet I
> can't get passed this auth.
>
> What am I missing? What steps should I follow to setup system users to
> receive email?
>
> Thanks,
> MePH

When Thunderbird fetches POP3 mail from the mailbox server, and it requires a login/password, that
has nothing to do with the Postfix configurations. It's the configs for the particular POP3 server software
you are running.

--
Greg

Correct, which in this case is courier. What I don't understand is
how/where to tell courier to use system users to auth passwords
against.

Thanks,
MePH

mephitic@gmail.com wrote:
> Correct, which in this case is courier. What I don't understand is
> how/where to tell courier to use system users to auth passwords
> against.
>
> Thanks,
> MePH

What I meant to imply was that this newgroup is for the Postfix MTA,
and not Courier MTA software. Although you might get lucky and
accidently find someone here who is familiar with it.

Have you seen the web site http://www.courier-mta.org ?

Lot's of good info there. This page at least mentions authpw and
/etc/passwd: http://www.courier-mta.org/?authlib.html

--
Greg