I did use user%hostname as a login, I even tried user@hostname, but
that doesn't work either...
the problem is the authentication, meaning vchkpw
I've read the FAQ, the INSTALL files and did everything BY THE BOOK.
qmail.org and "life with qmail" are no help
KJ> Don't even bother using inetd.
KJ> Also, read the INSTALL and FAQ files.
KJ> They explain you need to user "user@domain" not just "user"
KJ> Ken Jones
KJ> On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 09:41, Tom Van de Wiele wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> I'm running qmail as my smtp and pop3 server. I have normal
>> unix-accounts and virtual accounts (qmail accounts) and qmail and
>> vpopmail are installed by the book. I made a virtual domain and some virtual pop3
>accounts with vpopmail
>> which are made correctly.
>>
>> My pop3 line in inetd (yes, I'm using inetd for now, but that will
>> change once I got this working) is:
>>
>> pop3 stream tcp nowait root
>> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup qmail-popup my.full.domain /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw
>/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir
>>
>> The problem is that nor the normal users, or the virtual/qmail
>> accounts can collect their mail. I've sent the accounts some mail
>> using my own smtp server which worked (the mail is in the
>> $HOME/Maildir of those users and I see the entires in the logs).
>>
>> A little test:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> #telnet localhost 110
>> Trying 1.2.3.4 ...
>> Connected to my.full.domain.
>> Escape character is `^]`.
>> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> user username
>> +OK
>> pass testpass
>> -ERR authorization failed
>>
>> [/snip]
>>
>> in my /var/log/messages, I get:
>>
>> [snip]
>> Sep 18 16:15:31 my.full.domain vchkpw: vchkpw: Read error
>> [/snip]
>>
>> Always the "-ERR authorization failed" message. This is an
>> authentification problem for sure. I replaced vchkpw with
>> /bin/checkpassword and then only the unixaccounts work (which is
>> normal because checkpassword gets its passwords from /etc/passwd or
>> shadow) I see several people having the same problem, but no answers... not on
>qmail.org, nor on
>> the mailinglist-archive. I'v been working on this problem for 2 days
>> now.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated!
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Tom Van de Wiele
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
