I'm by no means a qmail expert, but looking at your selective tar backup, I
have something for you to check since you need help quickly (and it is
early sunday morning and you may not otherwise get replies for many more hours)
Check out these files (I'm on RedHat 6.1). They should be links to your
qmail's sendmail...
# ls -al /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 13 11:58 /usr/lib/sendmail ->
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Nov 13 11:59 /usr/sbin/sendmail ->
/var/qmail/bin/sendmail
I suggest this because it may not have been backed up by your selective tar.
I'm not familiar with vchkpw, but you may want to check to see if there are
other support items outside of the normal directories.
Troy
#
At 03:07 AM 12/12/99 , James Blackwell wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>We're running qmail with vchkpw and qmail-popup on a debian box and are in
>despirate need of assistance.
>
>Here are the steps leading up to my problems:
>- We did a backup of the main directories
>- There was a botched attempt at installing smtp-poplock
>- It didn't work out too well, so we untar the backups to their correct
>locations
>
>SMTP now appears to be accepting messages, I can see them in the
>/var/spool/qmail/mess directory.
>
>No messages seem to be delivered until we reboot the box. Upon reboot all
>mail is delivered, but then it starts not delivering again.
>
>AND when I telnet in on port 110 it goes something like this:
>Connected to host.domain.net.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>+OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>user username_domain.net
>+OK
>pass mypassword
>-ERR authorization failed
>Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>The password is correct as I when I do a vpasswd to change it, it asks for
>the old password, then the new password. It then aborts and says old and
>new passwords match. If I put in a different new password, it changes it.
>
>
>ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This has to work by the
>morning (CT)!
>
>TIA,
>--James
>
>
