> I'm running Linux Slackware 2.0.35, I have been running Qmail on
three
> other machines now just over a year. Right now I run Qmail mail from
> inetd and had been working great. I only wanted to install tcpserver
> because of the spam filtering I could do with it.
>
> I installed Qmail 1.03(tarball), and tcpserver 0.84(tarball),
>
> I have in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file
> tcpserver -u 1001 -g 101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd -x
> /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb &
> other machines now just over a year. Right now I run Qmail mail from
> inetd and had been working great. I only wanted to install tcpserver
> because of the spam filtering I could do with it.
>
> I installed Qmail 1.03(tarball), and tcpserver 0.84(tarball),
>
> I have in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file
> tcpserver -u 1001 -g 101 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd -x
> /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb &
My line is the following and works fine:
tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -u 1005 -g 801 0 smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
> tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup dns1.surftheusa.com
\
> /bin/checkpasswd/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3 Maildir &
> /bin/checkpasswd/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3 Maildir &
I made the same mistake. When we read Live with qmail of Dave Sill, we see
checkpasswd.
But the correct form is checkpassword.
> I installed checkpassword just as the INSTALL file said.
> make,
> make setup check
>
> It said that's it, then I ran the tests just as it said and it shows it
> works.
>
> Now the problems I'm having.
>
> All mail does get delivered when I send to the host. When I try to check
> the mail with Outlook Express, or Netscape mail, even Netscape with X
> windows the auth fails and asks me to enter the password again.
>
> I did re-did the password three times to make sure and it still fails on
> all mail programs.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bob Ross
>
