Still no luck logging in from remote using Eudora with smtpd-auth patch... have tried using root in qmail-smtpd, no help there...
in qmailqueue: messages contain: Unable to switch to /var/vpopmail/users/root -- which should have been /var/vpopmail/domains/www9.landings.com/root right? /var/log/maillog contains: www9 vpopmail[21742]: vchkpw-pop3: vpopmail user not found root@:69.3.72.9 -- seems the above should be [EMAIL PROTECTED]:69.3.72.9 is that correct?) qmailctl stat reports stuck messages: /service/qmail-send: up (pid 23547) 13 seconds /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 23548) 13 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 23551) 13 seconds /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 23552) 13 seconds /service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 23555) 13 seconds /service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 23556) 13 seconds messages in queue: 15 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain contains www9.landings.com have reinstalled qmail with smtpd-auth patch... using ./config etc... as previously done... did this cause this problem? current /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run: #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u vpopmail` NOFILESGID=`id -g vpopmail` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!" echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay" exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd www9.landings.com \ /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true 2>&1 -- no different if -u 89 -g 89 above... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 895532 Dec 29 17:47 /var/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw -rwxr-xr-x 1 root qmail 32872 Dec 30 19:05 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd ================================= setup: RH7.2 MySQL 4.1.1 vpopmail-5.4.0-pre2 vqadmin-2.3.6 qmailadmin-1.2.0-rc1 netqmail-1.04 (qmail) patch smtp-auth ezmlm-idx-0.40 ezmlm-0.53 qmail-scanner-1.20 ucspi-tcp-0.88 autorespond-2.0.2 any ideas to try next? Thx, Yonatan.