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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / August 2006won't change password in OS9
Hello, I had Eudora 6.11 set up in OS9.1 and in the Settings window ticked 'Save Password' in Checking Mail. I also ticked 'Use System Keychain to store passwords' in the Miscellaneous box. Now I want to change my password with my ISP and therefore Eudora. I changed with the ISP. Then in Eudora I went to these same two preference boxes and UNTICKED them. Then I went to the Special Menu and selected 'Change password'. Yet no matter how many times I tried, it kept giving me an error message "500 Old PW incorrect." How do I get Eudora to change my password? Thanks. > Hello, > I had Eudora 6.11 set up in OS9.1 and in the Settings window ticked [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > How do I get Eudora to change my password? > Thanks. Choose "Forget Password" in the Special menu. Then check your mail and it will ask for your (new) password. > Hello, > I had Eudora 6.11 set up in OS9.1 and in the Settings window ticked [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > How do I get Eudora to change my password? > Thanks. The "change password" command in Eudora attempts to use a non-standard and horribly insecure remote password change protocol sometimes referred to as "poppassd" to change the password on the server. You got the error message back because you were telling Eudora to change the password on the server, but you had already changed it. That your ISP seems to support that bad idea (i.e. enough to tell you that the old password is bad) calls into question their trustworthiness. That said, you are over-thinking this: you could have left those settings for remembering the password as they were and simply tried to get your mail twice. When Eudora gets a login failure, it assumes the password is bad and wipes its memory of the old password, and on the next check Eudora will ask you for the password.  SignatureNow where did I hide that website... |
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