In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I was running qmail-pop3d from inetd on FreeBSD 4.3 with no problems
> getting my mail. I took a suggestion and moved to running it under
> tcpserver. Now using the same username and password I get a -ERR
> authorization failed.
>
> qmail-pop3d start script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
> /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
> mail.oims.net /bin/checkpoppasswd relay-ctrl-allow
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1
>
> the program /bin/checkpoppasswd worked just fine under inetd.
>
> Now, even when I try /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.oims.net
> /bin/checkpoppasswd and enter USER myusername and PASS mypassword
>
> I get the same error. the checkpoppasswd came form Paul Gregg's projects
> (http://www.pgregg.com/projects/)
>
> Any suggestions?
Turn on auth.warning in syslog.conf, then check your syslog messages
to see where it is failing.
My guess tho is that relay-ctrl-allow is not in the cleaned out $PATH
of the tcpserver/checkpoppasswd environment and so the execvp() is failing.
Solution: specify the full path to relay-ctrl-allow
Paul.
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