[Gllug] Qmail problem

[Martyn Drake]

Just a thought, but does it use PAM for authentication (and if so, has it
been set-up properly for the Qmail POP3 service)?

Regards,

    Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "will" <will at hellacool.co.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:06 AM
Subject: [Gllug] Qmail problem


> Hi All,
>
> I have never used Qmail before but a customer has just installed it on one
of
> their boxes and it doesn't work and they have asked us to look into it.
The
> problem at the moment is that POP3 does not seem to work (they are using
the
> Qmail POP3 demon), here is the section of the /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl file
that
> starts it up:
>
> if svok /service/qmail-pop3d ; then
> svc -u /service/qmail-pop3d
>
> It is running because you can connect to the server fine, the problem is
that it
> is giving authorisation failed for users:
>
> [will at localhost will]$ telnet server.host.name.net 110
> Trying <IPaddress of server.host.name.net>...
> Connected to server.host.name.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <7440.1030701243 at server.host.name.net>
> user test
> +OK
> pass test
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction here?  I have no idea why this
might
> be failing, I guess the authentication method used is different, but How?
>
> Thanks
> Will
>
>
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