Thank you, Bill & Ken. Now to figure out how to run smtp as vpopmail...
-Kit
At 6:04 PM -0500 7/31/01, Ken Jones wrote:
>Bill Shupp wrote:
>>
>> on 7/31/01 4:54 PM, Kit Halsted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake:
>>
>> > Is anybody using qmail-smtpd-auth
>> > <http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/> with vpopmail?
>> >
>> > There's documentation there for use with vpopmail, but it mentions
>> > v3.4.11k, which sounds a lot older than the 4.9.8 I'm running. I'm
>> > curious as to whether anyone is using SMTP-AUTH with a recent
>> > vpopmail & whether it was hard to set up, as I'm looking at migrating
>> > a live server to it.
>>
>> I tried it out a while back. Here's what I found, to the best of my
>> recollection:
>>
>> 1. Don't worry about the vpopmail patch, it doesn't work anymore and you
>> don't need it.
>> 2. You have to run your smtp server as someone that can authenticate with
>> vpopmail (root or vpopmail)
>> 3. If you use multiple /etc/passwd users with vpopmail for system quotas,
>> I'm pretty sure you need to run it as root.
>>
>> Perhaps someone can verify the above, but I think that's what I had to do to
>> get it running. Although I never put it in production.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill Shupp
>
>Hey Bill :)
>
>I can verify that the latest devel works with smtp auth. I tested it
>last week. The only requirement is:
>
>1) run smtp as either root (if you have non vpopmail mailboxes) or
> as vpopmail (if all mail accounts are under vpopmail)
>
>Ken
