Alfredo Hassaf writes:
> Hello... I had that problem once and this is the help I got.... there are
> two possible solutions in this message.. The one I propose which is deleting
> sqwebmail-pass file and the one Francis P. Ling propose...
>
> Mine works fine I�ve never tested the Francis P. Ling propose so I cant tell
> or guarantee anything about that...
>
> Any way this was the conversation...
>
> ****************Me***************
> Hello, I've qmail, qmailadmin0.38 and in all my accounts I cant change
> the password not by qmailadmin and not by /home/vpopmail/bin/vpasswd
> command.
> No error is displayed and the commands seem to work properly but they
> dont..
>
> Any ideas???
>
> Thanks
> *********************************
>
> ****************Me Again***************
> OK, I think I�ve an idea of whats going on....
>
> Im using sqwebmail 1.0.3 too and I found that sqwebmail manage a file
> named sqwebmail-pass in
> /home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/user/Maildir/sqwebmail-pass, this file
> has a password that is the same one as when the account was created.
> When changing password with /vpasswd command or qmailadmin only the
> password in /home/vpopmail/domain/domain.com/vpasswd is updated but not the
> one in
> sqwebmail-pass file, this causes the Pop3 service to be updated with the
> new password but the web (sqwebmail) service is still using the old
> password.
> The funny thing is that when changing the password via sqwebmail (in the
> preferences menu) that script updates both the
> /home/vpopmail/domain/domain.com/vpasswd and the sqwebmail-pass file.
> This causes both, the Pop3 service and the web service, to have the same
> password.
>
> The question is.. Is there a patch for qmailadmin or qmail command that
> makes the change in both files so that the command vpasswd and qmailadmin
> works fine.????
>
> PS.- If any one is having this problem maybe is good for you to know that
> im solving it by deleting the sqwebmail-pass file under de Maildir directory
> of the user and then changing the password with qmailadmin or vpasswd
> command.
> This causes the creation of the sqwebmail-pass file with the new password
> and both services (Pop3 and web) work correctly.
> Thanks for advanced
> *************************************
>
> **********************Francis P. Ling ***********************
>
> You should browse the http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ for
> the answer. It's related to the vpopmail.c file.
>
>
> OK, to be quick, changing all the TmpBuf1 to TmpBuf2 and recompile
> vpopmail. Make sure you do the "make distclean" before running the
> configure again.
>
>
> Best of luck!
> **********************************************************************
>
> **********************Francis P. Ling again***********************
>
> OK, sorry for asking to you to beat around the bush ... vpopmail.c lines
> 1729 to 1733 only!
>
> *****************************************************************
>
>
> ****************Your message*********************************
>
> I have Qmail Admin ver qmailadmin-0.45 And sqwebmail ver sqwebmail-1.2.5
> And when using the Admin tool I changed a password on an email account. The
> change was updated and everything worked okay but Sqwebmail will only
> accept the old password and will not see the new password. Any Ideas as to
> what would cause this?
> Thanks
> Mike
Mike, what's your vpopmail version? My fix was only meant for version 4.9.8
or/and 4.9.8-1
If your vpopmail was higher, I recommend you to run the cronjob to remove
all "sqwebmail-pass" file from the system as per what Alfred was saying
about deleting the "sqwebmail-pass" file.
Good luck.
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