Hi, At 20:56 14.04.2005 -0500, you wrote: >I'm actually not familiar with the chkuser patch, but I will look at it. >The spamcontrol patch does more than just check users before delivery and I >hate to lose functionality, so do you know if the chkuser patch has similar >functionality. I'm sure that the patches probably conflict, so I can't use >both.
Yes. They will: SPAMCONTROL and chkuser are basically incompatible (have a look at the code; in particular of chkuser). Actually, the whole situation regarding user authentication for SMTP and POP3/IMAP4 traffic is rather unfavorable. It's absolute useless to have different authentication tools and databases. The only way to circumvent this situation is: - To use a unified PAM for SMTP and POP3/IMAP4 authentication. - To place the user authentication + the required environment information into the LDAP directory and fetch it. I plan to write such a eLDAPAM (enhanced LDAP Authentication Module) and introduce into SPAMCONTROL/RECIPIENTS extension (version 0.5x) a call-interface for such a module. Since Dan has written a clear checkpassword interface (see my remarks on SMTP Authentication), such an eLDAPAM could be used as substitue for vchkpwd et al. regards. --eh. Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
