> Are you using the correct popauthd for the pop3 daemon you are using?
> popauthd comes tweeked to work correctly with vm-pop3d, whereas if you
wish
> to use qpopper you need to rename popauthd.orig to popauthd (dont forget
to
> rename popauthd first incase you wish to use vm-pop3d in the future)

good question :) I think so - I have this line uncommented in inetd.conf

pop3 stream tcp  nowait  root /usr/sbin/virtuald tcpd
/usr/sbin/vm-pop3d -i --group admin --user mail --debug=5

> other things I can think of is that popauthd needs to be running as admin,
or
> nothing will work.
>
> is popauthd running at all??

yes to both (1000 is the uid of the VS admin)

 490 #1000      1   0  1584 1584   980 S       0  0.0  0.3   0:01 popauthd

>
> also can you cut and paste your /var/log/mailog, for a sucessful pop login
> then we can get our heads around it!

Jul  9 06:14:36 www vm-pop3d[4655]: Connect from 99.99.99.99
Jul  9 06:14:36 www vm-pop3d[4655]: User 'admin' logged in
Jul  9 06:14:37 www vm-pop3d[4655]: Session ended for user: admin

IP changed to protect the guilty :)

here is a top from the VS

 6:17am  up 18:26,  0 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
20 processes: 19 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.1% system,  0.0% nice, 99.9% idle
Mem:   523804K av,   68556K used,  455248K free,       0K shrd,    5028K
buff
Swap:  104416K av,       0K used,  104416K free                   36088K
cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 4671 root      15   0   844  844   664 R       0  0.2  0.1   0:00 top
  468 root       0   0   400  400   332 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00
vsdredirect
  490 admin      0   0  1584 1584   980 S       0  0.0  0.3   0:01 popauthd
  492 admin      0   0   620  620   500 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 syslogd
  496 root       1   0   668  668   552 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 crond
  497 daemon     0   0   504  504   424 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 atd
  500 root       0   0   816  816   648 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 su
  504 mysql      0   0   832  832   668 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00
safe_mysqld
  537 mysql      5   5  1344 1344   968 S N     0  0.0  0.2   0:00 mysqld
  540 root       0   0  1168 1168   940 S       0  0.0  0.2   0:00 sshd
  550 mysql      5   5  1344 1344   968 S N     0  0.0  0.2   0:00 mysqld
  551 mysql      5   5  1344 1344   968 S N     0  0.0  0.2   0:00 mysqld
  552 web        0   0  2644 2644  2596 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 httpd
  553 web        0   0  2740 2740  2612 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 httpd
  554 web        0   0  2636 2636  2584 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 httpd
  555 web        0   0  2636 2636  2584 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 httpd
  556 web        0   0  2676 2676  2580 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 httpd
  557 web        0   0  2636 2636  2584 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 httpd
  856 web        0   0  2652 2652  2596 S       0  0.0  0.5   0:00 httpd
 4663 admin     14   0   892  892   728 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 bash


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