Re: "solutions for spam"

[Russell Nelson]

Scott D. Yelich writes:
 > Is there any way to *easily* debug or trace checkpassword to
 > see what it is doing and why it thinks that authorization has
 > failed?

Yes.  You can use the instructions on http://www.qmail.org/top.html#checkpassword
to discern whether the problem is in the pop setup or checkpassword
itself.  You can also (if you're using Linux) run strace on the
tcpserver: strace -ff -o /tmp/pop -p <pid of tcpserver>
That will give you the system calls, which very often tells you what's 
going on, even if you're not a programmer.  "open" opens a file, eh?
And write shows you what's written to it.

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