Hi, At 19:37 04.02.04 +0100, you wrote: >El mar, 03-02-2004 a las 07:46, -0700, Tom Collins escribió: >> On Feb 3, 2004, at 5:59 AM, Alejandro Ortega Páez wrote: >> > I've just updated my vpopmail to new 5.4.0. I always install every >> > new version you release. >> > But from 25.4.0-preX" I have noticed authentication with cram-md5 >> > passwords fails. >> > I hoped that installing the fresh stable 5.4.0 all this issue would >> > leave apart, but it still continue. >> >> 5.4.0 ChangeLog: >> >> Tom Collins >> IF USING SMTP AUTH PATCH TO QMAIL-SMTPD >> >> * This release of vpopmail includes fixes for vchkpw that may break >> certain SMTP AUTH implementations. If SMTP AUTH fails after >> installing vpopmail 5.4.x, you may need to use the >> qmail-smtpd-auth-0.4.2 patch included in the contrib directory. >> >> * If you do switch to the 0.4.2 SMTP AUTH patch, you may need to >> update >> your qmail-smtpd run file (the first parameter to qmail-smtpd should >> now be the path to vchkpw and not the hostname). >Oh, oh... thank you... indeed. > >I always update my vpopmail with so a complete safety, than I never read >README, CHANGELOG or more files like these. >Very sorry for this. > >Well, but... I have applied again auth patch and now it's impossible to >get that qmail remakes right. Errors and more errors are the only thing >I get. I used before this patch (and many others that it's used to be >usual to install), and I don't know whether qmail code is a mere mess of >patches now. > >So I'm not a programmer or a code hacker, I will have to resign myself >to use vpopmail 5.4.0pre2 version... Moreover there is a thing you said >that disappoints me: "[...] the first parameter to qmail-smtpd should >now be the path to vchkpw and not the hostname". What's does it mean? >Must I write the "run" command this way: "/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd >/home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw myhost.com /bin/true 2>&1"? > >I pledge your pardon for my every time more forgotten English. And of >course, I repeat my thanks, Tom.
Alejandro, pls read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html regards. --eh. >Alejandro Ortega > > > Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/ Wiener Weg 8, 50858 Cologne | T: +49 221 484 4923 | F: ...24
