[Gllug] Qmail problem

[Robert Wood]

will,

     it needs to be compiled with whatever auth type they need, so if
they are using vpopmail the configure needs --with-auth=vchkpw or if
its against the system passwd file --with-auth=vpasswd somethinig
along those lines anyway, its been a while since i make'd it myself

Regards

Robert Wood                     Data Centre Support Technician
Tel: +44(0)20 7531 8750         Fax: +44(0)20 7531 8701
Redbus Interhouse (UK) Ltd.     http://www.interhouse.redbus.com
Registered in England no.       3607764

===================Original message text===============
Friday, August 30, 2002, 11:06:46 AM, Robert Wood wrote:

w> Hi All,

w> I have never used Qmail before but a customer has just installed it on one of 
w> their boxes and it doesn't work and they have asked us to look into it.  The 
w> problem at the moment is that POP3 does not seem to work (they are using the 
w> Qmail POP3 demon), here is the section of the /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl file that 
w> starts it up:

w> if svok /service/qmail-pop3d ; then
w> svc -u /service/qmail-pop3d

w> It is running because you can connect to the server fine, the problem is that it 
w> is giving authorisation failed for users:

w> [will at localhost will]$ telnet server.host.name.net 110
w> Trying <IPaddress of server.host.name.net>...
w> Connected to server.host.name.net.
w> Escape character is '^]'.
w> +OK <7440.1030701243 at server.host.name.net>
w> user test
w> +OK
w> pass test
w> -ERR authorization failed
w> Connection closed by foreign host.

w> Can anyone point me in the right direction here?  I have no idea why this might 
w> be failing, I guess the authentication method used is different, but How?

w> Thanks
w> Will


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