Re: Re[2]: [vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
Thanks for the feedback, I am going to have a look at both packages. I think I will start another thread for this to solicit info/opinions on Webmail interfaces. Thanks again! Cheers, Bob Porter On Thursday 05 September 2002 10:32 am, Michael Anderson wrote: On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 11:01 PM, Robert Porter wrote: Bob, we started out with sqwebmail. Personally, I liked it a lot, however, our clients like the squirlmail system much better. They are both excellent web interfaces, and it's more like personal choice. sqwebmail was a little easier to install, but neither one is very difficult.
[vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
Hi, I have a working install of QMail on a RedHat 7.3 system. It hosts my domains email server. (RP2C.COM) and all was working well. I wanted to be able to host mail users without local accounts, and according to Dave Sill's book vpopmail was a way to do that. I have a number of employees that I want to provide email to but I don't want them necessarily to have accounts on this system. Also they will be coming in from the all over the internet so I wanted to enable POP and/or IMAP services. I got the POP3D service running just fine, but as far as I can tell in order to host users mail without accounts the way to go is a virtual domain type service like vpopmail. Maybe I am confused but does this mean I have to acquire another top level domain name? Can't I just turn my current domain into a virtual domain as far as Qmail is concerned? Anyway, after installing vpopmail I altered my POP3d run file to have it use vchkpw as opposed to checkpassword. At that point all logins failed, both for the virtual domain and the real user based accounts. I tried telneting into 0 110 and got past the user x stage okay, when I put in pass yy I got an AUTH failed message. Replacing vchkpw with checkpassword again and restarting the service resulted in everything working again. I am stumped? Any ideas? Cheers, Robert Porter RP2C Inc
Re: [vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
on 9/4/02 10:30 PM, rm at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I am confused but does this mean I have to acquire another top level domain name? Can't I just turn my current domain into a virtual domain as far as Qmail is concerned? You are correct. You don't need a new top level domain name. Vpopmail allows you to add hundreds/thousands of email users who are not system users. cd /home/vpopmail/bin ./vadduser username (vpopmail will query you from there)
Re: [vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 21:21, Robert Porter wrote: On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:30 pm, rm wrote: Could you post your pop3d run script? and are you using the mysql option? regis This is the current one, which works with local users #!/bin/sh MAXPOP3D=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/concurrencypop3` exec /command/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l -o -x /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb -c $MAXPOP3D \ 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup zoomer.rp2c.com /bin/checkpassword \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 This is the modified one which fails. I also tried replacing the real host with mail.rp2c.com which is a valid MX record in DNS but points to the same host. And I added mail.rp2c.com to the virtualhosts file etc. Still no joy. #!/bin/sh MAXPOP3D=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/concurrencypop3` exec /command/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l -o -x /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb -c $MAXPOP3D \ 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup zoomer.rp2c.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 Here's a copy of my .../pop3d/run. I guess the big difference is your path to /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb. I'm not sure what's going on there. you might try this format - it's right out of life with qmail. I mentioned the mysql option because you usually have to raise the softlimit. #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 4000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ pop.mbpost.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21
Re: [vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:53 pm, rm wrote: #!/bin/sh MAXPOP3D=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/concurrencypop3` exec /command/softlimit -m 200 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l -o -x /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb -c $MAXPOP3D \ 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup zoomer.rp2c.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 Here's a copy of my .../pop3d/run. I guess the big difference is your path to /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb. I'm not sure what's going on there. you might try this format - it's right out of life with qmail. I mentioned the mysql option because you usually have to raise the softlimit. #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 4000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -l 0 0 110 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \ pop.mbpost.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \ /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 21 The etc/tcp.pop3.cdb bit is from Dave Sill's book, the author of life with qmail its the database of allowed/denied TCP relay clients. I replaced my run script with essentially a copy of yours and still no joy, then I looked at Eric Moore's reply and realized what I was doing wrong. I was supplying bob instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] so it had no idea where to look I guess. All appears to be fine now! Thanks! Bob
Re: [vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
Thanks Kevin, I read (am reading) the link you sent, out of curiosity does a setup like that support a webmail interface? If so any material on which one and how to implement it? Thanks! Bob Porter On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:07 pm, you wrote: Hello Robert, Paul Gregg wrote a nice single user id how to. http://www.pgregg.com/projects/qmail/singleuid/index.php I'd shy away from vpopmail as it doesn't really work properly. Sincerely, Kevin Barnes - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, September 04, 2002, 9:01:25 PM, you wrote:
Re: Re[2]: [vchkpw] No joy getting vchkpw to replace checkpassword.
How long ago was your experience with the vpopmail/sqwebmail combo? Since I am not going to be running a high volumn server I wonder if my experience would be different. Just curious what you think. I don't want to go the expense of Cold Fusion if I can avoid it. I am a small operation 10 employees and unlikely to grow much beyond that. Might host another 20+ accounts for associates and contractors but that would be it. Cheers, Bob Porter On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:11 am, you wrote: Hello Robert, No webmail interface. I use a Cold Fusion webmail interface that works pretty well. I found in my experimenting with vpopmail/sqwebmail/qmailadmin that there were far more problems than benefits. I've been running a straight qmail server for a few years, then I added vpopmail/sqwebmail and qmailadmin. After that everything went to hell, fast. Forwarding did not work, the webmail interface validated users for about a day then quit. qmailadmin would error out all the time, but still complete the task. I switched back to a standard qmail install and found the cold fusion front end. Now all the qmail stuff (forwarding, aliasing, and catchall mailboxes) work just fine. Sincerely, Kevin Barnes - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
