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
