Hi Tom,
That person would be me. There was a problem authenticating on a remote
mysql backend without the local directory. But my problem was solved
when I re-compiled the vpopmail, and set up the 's' flag to others on
vchkpw again (using vpopmail 5.3.30).
Regards,
Hlio Rubens Kamogawa
Someone on the list posted that SMTP AUTH would fail if the domain directory didn't exist, because vchkpw needed it. They were trying to set up a separate box for inbound SMTP, and it would only have the qmail control files and a link to MySQL to authenticate users.
I just tried to verify that
