At 12:18 p -0700 10/18/2007, Randall Gellens didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
At 3:02 PM -0700 10/17/07, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
I just got this working (on FreeBSD 6.2). Whew!
I set up my system using the Vanemery.com qpopper page as a guide.
I'm not familiar with that. If you have suggestions for changes to
the Qpopper FAQ or the Administrators Guide, please send them in.
Sending a patch is always welcome.
Quickstart Guide - Qpopper on FreeBSD
http://www.vanemery.com/Protocols/POP/qpopper-bsd-howto.html
Of course neither one helped me solve my SSL certificate issues -- I
kept getting signature error code 7. A friend pointed me to
<http://www.rpatrick.com/tech/makecert/>; meanwhile I had been
reading the FAQ on RapidSSL.com which spoke of invalid characters
such as "," and "." -- I had those in the company name field, so I
removed them when I followed the third set of instructions, and
finally got a working certificate.
I had originally put all my users into the APOP db, but that
confused Qpopper when a PC user on OE tried to connect. So I
deleted the PC users from the APOP db (leaving the Mac users in,
since both Eudora and Mail.app do APOP), and that left me with a
PAM error ("pam_authenticate returned 9").
The default setting for 'clear-text-password' rejects attempts to
log in with username/password if the user exists in the APOP
database. Looking at the code, setting 'clear-text-password' to
'TLS' also does this, but I'm thinking this may be a bug.
Specifically, the code at pop_user.c line (line 256 in qpopper4.0.9)
should check for other values as well.
Yeah, my thinking was that a PC user should be able to, um, upgrade
from Outlook to Eudora without requiring sysadmin help; that's why I
put all the users into the APOP database.
Aside: the old hosting service, which registered the domain name as
well, switched the DNS while I was sleeping. I awoke today to a call
from my coworker saying that email wasn't working. Oy. Hopefully
nothing was lost; thank goodness the mail system stores and retries.
Everything's working now. :-)
-Walter
