----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:19 PM
Subject: RE: a little help?
> for your virtual users login as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That worked also : ) thanks for your help too. So ... either % or @ seem to
work. Great to know.
> Depending on how you compiled vpopmail you logging is done through syslog,
> probably into /var/log/mail*
I dont seem to see anything useful relating to authentication failures in
there. But nonetheless my question has been answered and I appreciate that
more than you will ever know.
[root@mail /root]# tail -f /var/log/maillog
Dec 22 01:27:19 mail pop3d: 977477239.296869 tcpserver: status: 1/40
Dec 22 01:27:19 mail pop3d: 977477239.304310 tcpserver: pid 583 from
192.168.0.2
Dec 22 01:27:19 mail pop3d: 977477239.314570 tcpserver: ok 583
:192.168.0.33:110 :192.168.0.2::1423
Dec 22 01:27:19 mail pop3d: 977477239.944246 tcpserver: end 583 status 256
Dec 22 01:27:19 mail pop3d: 977477239.952074 tcpserver: status: 0/40
Dec 22 01:27:29 mail pop3d: 977477249.113887 tcpserver: status: 1/40
Dec 22 01:27:29 mail pop3d: 977477249.123896 tcpserver: pid 585 from
192.168.0.2
Dec 22 01:27:29 mail pop3d: 977477249.133382 tcpserver: ok 585
:192.168.0.33:110 :192.168.0.2::1424
Dec 22 01:27:29 mail pop3d: 977477249.430427 tcpserver: end 585 status 256
Dec 22 01:27:29 mail pop3d: 977477249.436753 tcpserver: status: 0/40
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Updegrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 4:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: a little help?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for all the software inter7.com.
> I would like some helpful feedback/hints here please. I also have a few
> questions : )
>
> I have been experimenting with adding a pop user to a virtual domain with
> qmailadmin. I realize this is the vchkpw list but this is mainly what I
seem
> to be having trouble with is the authentication of the newly created pop
> user. I have included some qmail and vpopmail information in anticipation
of
> being asked for it. I have been using qmail a la LWQ for a few months but
I
> was receiving mail for 1 domain. Yesterday I installed qmailadmin which
led
> me to this point here. The good news is that e-mail appears to be
working.
> The bad news is that I have some questions, (mainly because I can't
actually
> retrieve the mail that is being accepted ok by the server as you will see
in
> the log below). Please keep in mind that I am somewhat of an idiot and
> running a mail server as well as using a discussion list are very new to
me.
> The user [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the pop user created on
> myvirtualdomain.cc using qmailadmin. The virtualdomain.cc was created with
> ./vadddomain
>
> The log:
>
> @400000003a42e8ee33ccf2bc new msg 30953
> @400000003a42e8ee33cecb64 info msg 30953: bytes 2256 from
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 488 uid 502
> @400000003a42e8ee37f50514 starting delivery 6: msg 30953 to local
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @400000003a42e8ee37f854bc status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> @400000003a42e8ef0a3c79cc delivery 6: success: did_0+0+1/
> @400000003a42e8ef0a3ebfd4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> @400000003a42e8ef0a4061cc end msg 30953
>
> Hopefully that will establish that qmail and qmailadmin are working. If
not,
> I apoligize for being such a stupid person. Please show me the error of my
> ways.
> Note: I am used to seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the incoming mail in the
> logs. Now that I have started using the virtual domain added with
> ./vadddomain and ./vadduser I see them coming in as
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] which means its working ok.
> (right? just looking for validation here I know its qmail related and not
> vchkpw related )
>
> The part where I got confused initially was, "if I had a user with the
same
> name on both domains how would I differentiate between them"? After
watching
> the logs I assumed that I authenticate with the name my
> virtualdomain.cc-rick and the password I made with the command ./vadduser
> and that vpopmail would sort it out and retrieve mail from the Maildir it
> created in its virtual domain folder. I guess the confusing part was that
I
> made the name "rick" not "myvirtualdomain.cc-rick". The problem is neither
> name work with the password created with ./vadduser or with the password
> changed with qmailadmin when attempting to retrieve mail or authenticate
> when telneting to the port 110 on the mail server. I can log on to
> qmailadmin using the postmaster name and password created with
./vadddomain
> then I can add and delete the users and use the other various functions.
> However, I can not seem to find any logging of the authentication failures
> (or successes in the log on to qmailadmin case) when attempting to
retrieve
> mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have tried both usernames "rick" and
> "myvirtualdomain.cc-rick" with the newly created password.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> can still get mail with the "rick" and "oldpassword" Since I can add
domains
> and users, log onto qmailadmin with the postmaster password I create with
> the commands: ./vadddomain and ./vadduser the logical question would be
> "Does qmailadmin use /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw for authentication"? If so,
> "why does it allow the postmaster to log on to the qmailadmin, but not
> authenticate the pop user I created"?
>
> I guess my questions are:
> "Why can't I authenticate the pop user I created [EMAIL PROTECTED]"?
> probably answered by the next question,
> "How do I retrieve mail for the pop user I created
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"?
> "Where is this "stuff" logged"?
>
> Note that the old user names and passwords still authenticate alright with
> the qmail startup script listed below using vchkpw & qmail-pop3d Also note
> that I tried to add mydomain.net to the virtuals yesterday but ended up
with
> problems which I will not get into here. My point is that 1 domain is not
> yet added with ./vadddomain but I would like to eventually manage both
> domains with qmailadmin using cdb authentication via vchkpw for the pop
> users (I think thats what I want anyway, please correct me if I am wrong)
.
>
> Here is some potentially useful info:
> [root@mail /root]# telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user myvirtualdomain.cc-rick
> +OK
> pass therealpassword
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> [root@mail /root]#
>
> I get this from my MUA:
> There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was
> rejected. Account: 'mail.mydomain.net', Server: 'mail.mydomain.net',
> Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR authorization failed', Port: 110,
> Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92
>
> Here is some potentially useful info?:
> [root@mail /root]# fuser -v 110/tcp
> USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
> 110/tcp root 295 f.... tcpserver
>
> [root@mail /root]# ps axwww|grep vchk
> 295 ? S 0:00 tcpserver -H -v -R 0 pop-3
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.mydomain.net /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
> 403 pts/0 S 0:00 grep vchk
> [root@mail /root]#
>
> below is my startup script for qmail derived from the vpopmail INSTALL and
> LWQ. How does it look?
>
> note that I get an "alert" after a reboot with this configuration that I
did
> not get (or notice) previously.
>
> start)
> echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan"
> cd /var/qmail/supervise
> env - PATH="$PATH" svscan &
> echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid
> echo "."
> tcpserver -H -R -v 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.mydomain.net \
> /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \
> /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
> ;;
>
> I get the following "alert" after a restart of the machine the first thing
> in the log is:
> @400000003a419fff24d4a854 alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying...
> @400000003a419fff24d753ec alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying...
> @400000003a419fff24d95b74 status: exiting
>
> which seems to not really affect anything since it is followed by
>
> @400000003a41a0a1399ef424 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
>
> I normally use the LWQ script with /bin/checkpassword and get no such
> "alert":
>
> start)
> echo -n "Starting qmail: svscan"
> cd /var/qmail/supervise
> env - PATH="$PATH" svscan &
> echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid
> echo "."
> tcpserver -v -R 0 pop-3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup mail.mydomain.net \
> /bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \
> /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
>
> Maybe this is enough info to trigger a helpful reply?
>
> NOTE*
> My actual domain has been changed to mydomain.net and the virtual in
> question is myvirtualdomain.cc The user name and password I used when
> testing were successfully added or changed as the case may be, according
to
> qmailadmin.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
