On 8-Mar-2003 11:59 Marek Gutkowski wrote:
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| This is not a patch, actually. It is an external program, but it uses
| vmailmgr libraries, so it has to live inside vmailmgr's source tree. The
| patch for Makefile.am is just for user's comfort - you could also
| compile bincimap-auth-vmailmgr by hand. I wrote three emails to Bruce
| Guenter in my life; none of them received a response; that's why I'm not
| trying to make this authenticator become a part of vmailmgr anymore.
Clearly, I'm using patching in a liberal sense. If one can't build
a program without grabbing source X, you are patching X, generally
speaking. Semantics aside, my aversion to writing such an authenticator
stems from this dependency.
I'm a little surprised Bruce Guenter didn't respond as he's generally
fairly active on various mailing lists. Have you subscribed to the
vmailmgr list and posted there? Still, considering the last release
of vmailmgr was over 2 years ago, it seems unlikely anything we're
likely to want will be included and released in short order.
| The whole rewriting thing is simply broken; I've sent Bruce Guenter a
| trivial patch, changing checkvpw to work as documented in it's manpage,
| but received no reply.
Yeah, if it can't find maildir, it just rewrites the last argument,
which is a pretty serious bug if you ask me.
The other alternative is to have bincimap-uidpwd take a Maildir
argument, and use it. This is in keeping with BincIMAP's claim
to be "invoked similarly". Still, there are some significant
differences. Having something like qmail-imapup would make the
claim closer to the truth.
regards.
--
-dale
