[Gllug] Qmail problem

[Walid Shaari]

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 11:55, will wrote:
> Martyn Drake wrote:
> > Just a thought, but does it use PAM for authentication (and if so, has it
> > been set-up properly for the Qmail POP3 service)?
> 
> I checked the run script for pop3d and it had the following in it:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/tcpserver 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
> hostname.of.server /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \
>          /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

vchkpw it means that your client is using vpopmail to manage, and use
virtual email domains the user name would be something like
user%domain.com
> 
> I have changed this to the recommended 
> (http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#pop-imap-servers) script:

I wouldn't do that unless I know thats what your client wants as it uses
the password file auth.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
>   /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
>    hostname.of.server  /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1
> 



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