qpopper says "incorrect password"

[macsrwe]

I have been successfully using qpopper through 10.3 and 10.4. I upgraded to Leopard last night and it's been a nightmare. It took me quite some time to learn how to transition qpopper to launchd, write a correct plist, etc. But finally I have the program running.

Now I just need to get it to talk to me. When I actually try to log into it, all I can get is "incorrect password."

I've Googled the heck out of this problem. Many of the tips say to turn on --enable_specialauth for systems that don't store passwords in /etc/passwsd, but I use DarwinPorts instead of building manually and from what I can see in the DarwinPorts file, it always turns that on. I've used the passwd command to "update" my password to its current value, just in case there was some problem there, but it hasn't helped. Another hint suggested some niutil hackery, but niutil seems to be gone in Leopard. In general, most of the tips for this problem predate Leopard.

Any help?

[ElDiabloConCaca]

qpopper is apparently available natively (i.e., not through DarwinPorts) for Mac OS X as of version 4.0.8:

http://www.eudora.com/products/unsupported/qpopper/index.html

Have you tried downloading and compiling that version of qpopper? If it mentions Mac OS X compatibility, chances are that it has been updated to work with where Mac OS X stores the passwords.

[macsrwe]

Thanks for the tip. The newest version available there logs clearer error messages. Using the added info I was able to target the problem, which was that I needed a pop3 configuration file for PAM. The PAM documentation was impenetrable, but it seemed to me that using the same text as the sudo PAM file would work, and it did.