On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 11:45:03AM -0800, David McCall wrote:
> Wish there was a graphic picture of the qmail parts and the addons with
> their various functional locations and requirements or even
> a flow chart showing how stuff should move under various conditions.
See the INTERNALS file that comes with the qmail tarball, and the various PIC.*
files in /var/qmail/doc.
> I'm really not seeing the big picture at all and I feel less than smart
> right now.
>
> my qmail seems to work fine
>
> I want to put a web interface to it using atdot
>
> which implies that I should have qmail-pop3d running
> which implies that I should have tcpserver running
>
> among other things
>
>
> I am hoping to build user lists using apop independant of the UNIX
> Solaris OS but the mechanism and method escapes me.
>
> like where is the pop3 daemon looking for the users and passwords?
Wherever you like, so long as you provide an appropriate checkpassword program.
The checkpassword program that's on DJB's site (http://cr.yp.to) looks in
/etc/passwd, but there are many more that let you use other databases. See
http://www.qmail.org/top.html#checkpassword
Chris
