dovecot - Mar 2007 - Issue with pop3 & phpList

Hello, all.  Dovecot really sparked my interest when I noticed it focused on
security.  It seems to be a great product thus far.  Anyway...

I'm new to the mail world (pop3/smtp), and I have a project in which I use a
mass mailer known as phpList.  If you aren't familiar with it, it has the
ability to view and process bounces.  Bounces are basically emails that
don't quite make it (for the most part).  In order for this to work, I must
create a pop3 account.  I installed Dovecot and now the port is open, which
means the service is running.  Here is where it gets confusing...

When I goto process the bounces, it times out because of the fact that there
were too many login attempts.  Does dovecot have a default
username/password?  How do I set up a username and password?

Is there a special way to just have the pop3 portion of Dovecot load?  I
went through the config file and took out some of the #'s like the docs
said.  Thanks!

Server: OpenSUSE 10.1

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Chris Harner  []  Server Engineer  []  Arnold Transportation Services

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:17:31AM -0700, Chris Harner (CH) wrote:
CH> were too many login attempts.  Does dovecot have a default
CH> username/password?  How do I set up a username and password?

No, dovecot uses various plugins for authentication and authorization of users
with passwords that belong to them. My guess is that it would be best for you
to create a user on your dovecot box specially for phplist, most likely
dovecot's default authentication configuration will work just fine for you.

CH> Is there a special way to just have the pop3 portion of Dovecot load?  I
CH> went through the config file and took out some of the #'s like the
docs
CH> said.  Thanks!

Disabling the "protocol imap" section should get you started.
Don't forget to enable pop3 as well!

Gr,

Nils

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