Re: [vchkpw] qmail-smtpd-auth against vpopmail mysql userdb

[Samuel Hug]

Hi there,

Well i've tried to use vchkpw as the pw checking backend for
qmail-smtpd-auth. But at the moment it's not possible to gain access to
send mail trough the smtp server.
The server is invoked via tcpsever, and runs under the correct user:
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l mail.moritzi.ch -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
-c 20 -u 7797 -g 2109 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd mail.moritzi.ch
/export/opt/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true
Tho logs doesn't show up with any useful informations.
   

So what exactly do they say? Did you compile vpopmail with verbose error
logging?
Yes it is compiled with the verbose error logging flag, but not a single 
line shows up when i'm trying to auth via mua.

Is there any possibility to check an useracount with vchkpw via the
shell, just to be shure that it does what it should do?
   

http://qmail.org/top.html#checkpassword

Check out the hints by Mark Delany right at the top of the section.

I've tried this, works great! And also the logfile shows up with the 
corresponding message:
Mar 18 10:49:06 zeus vpopmail[666]: vchkpw: login success [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Are there any other suggestions?
   

Not at the moment, until we see exact error messages from the logs.

Which client are you using? Which SMTP AUTH technique are you using -
PLAIN, LOGIN or CRAM-MD5?
I've tried with mozilla 1.3 and Outlook Express 6, so AUTH technique 
should be LOGIN i think.

Next thing i've done is testing the smtp server via the command line, 
and this shows me an error which i can't retrace:

Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.moritzi.ch ESMTP
ehlo sam.baden.moritzi.ch
250-mail.moritzi.ch
250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
250-PIPELINING
250 8BITMIME
auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
dGVzdEBzMnBpZC5jaA==
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
ZmFrZXB3Oyk=
Out of memory (Needed 8164 bytes)
vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL client run out of memory454 oops, problem 
with child and I can't auth (#4.3.0)

The system itself has enough free memory, and i also wonder why there 
are no such problems when i try to login manually as mentioned above.

Any ideas?

regards
sam