Hi
we made the changes to qpopper and now have two popathd daemons running and
get 2 cron messages evry hour - not sure if that's something else weve done
so we may just delete and start a fresh
Eddie
> > Eddie,
> >
> > Found the problem...
> >
> > The tweeks made to vm-pop3d are basicly to encourage the log format of
> > vm-pop3d to be different to what it is by default so you get somthing
like
> > this.
> >
> > 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 from
> 99.99.99.99
> > Jul 9 06:14:37 www vm-pop3d[4655]: Session ended for user: admin
> >
> > It needs to be like this so popauthd will realise that a sucessful login
> (a
> > authorised login) has happened and rehash the sendmail /etc/mail/access
> > database.
> >
> > To explain:
> >
> > I check my mail via a pop client, I'm running vm-pop3d and logging in as
> > admin, vm-pop3d logs this:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > but if I log in as a configured "virtual" user I will get this:
> >
> > 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 'nigel' of 'freevsd-is-it.org'
> > logged in from 99.99.99.99
> > Jul 9 06:14:37 www vm-pop3d[4655]: Session ended for user: admin
> >
> > which popauthd will notice and rehash the database.
> >
> > The people who wrote vm-pop3d havnt thought of this, or havnt got around
> to
> > pop before smtp authentication.
> >
> > So what we had to do was modify the log format, at present it only works
> with
> > virtual users.. (which will be fixed asap!!)
> >
> > So I do apoligise about that!
> >
> > >From here, you have two choices,
> >
> > 1) you use vm-pop3d with popauthd for virtual users only. (Ie: no
> popauth'd
> > real users can send mail from outside of your local lan)
> >
> > 2) you can switch back to qpopper and use pop before smtp with that.
> >
> > Once again, I do apoligise, we are on to that problem, and should be
with
> a
> > solution soon!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Nigel.
> >
> > On Monday 09 July 2001 11:26 am, you wrote:
> >
> > > > 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
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