The error:
Sep 18 16:15:31 my.full.domain vchkpw: vchkpw: Read error
is definately the problem, it looks to me that it cannot read the passwd
file maybe?
what user is your pop3 server being run as?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Van de Wiele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:41 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: qmail+vpopmail witchcraft
>
>
> 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]
>
>
