VM weirdness

The POP command to send the password is PASS. I don't know why the P would be missing. I've never seen this problem before. As for +OK in the headers--- POP message retrieval looks like this. RETR 2 +OK 4598 octets Received: from foo.com by bar.com From: nobody To: nobody blah blah blah . So if you're seeing +OK in the headers, it means VM is not skipping over the RETR response before copying out the message. VM uses a marker to keep track of its position in the buffer that contains the POP session stream. If this marker position is getting corrupted or otherwise fiddled with, that would explain the +OK in the headers. But it would not explain the PASS -> ASS problem.