[tpop3d-discuss]ldap problems

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:01:59 +0100


On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 07:10:28PM +1000, Cameron Gregg wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> forgive my newbiness, but I'm puzzled over setting up tpop3d to connect 
> to ldap.
> 
> Platform: Solaris 8
> tpop3d version: 1.5.3
> openldap version: 2.1.30
> 
> the error I am getting:
> 
> Jun 13 18:14:46 quarto tpop3d[9821]: [ID 702911 mail.error] 
> try_ldap_connect_bind: ldap_simple_bind_s: Protocol error
> Jun 13 18:14:46 quarto last message repeated 2 times

Unfortunately that error isn't very specific. The OpenLDAP
documentation glosses it, entirely unhelpfully, as `A
protocol violation was detected'.

Is there any chance you could look at the traffic between
tpop3d and the LDAP server with sniff/tcpdump/ethereal?

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