[vchkpw] Using chkuser as 'smtp-authentication' mechanism. WAS: [empf] Choosing a good SMTP_AUTH patch

2005-09-14 Thread Bruno Negrao
Hi Guys, Matt Brookings told me at EMPF mailing list that the chkuser patch can be used to implement smtp authentication, but I never read in any place that chkuser could be used for that. If it really can, could someone point me for a documentation on this subject? At least in the

Re: [vchkpw] Using chkuser as 'smtp-authentication' mechanism. WAS: [empf] Choosing a good SMTP_AUTH patch

2005-09-14 Thread DAve
Bruno Negrao wrote: Hi Guys, Matt Brookings told me at EMPF mailing list that the chkuser patch can be used to implement smtp authentication, but I never read in any place that chkuser could be used for that. If it really can, could someone point me for a documentation on this subject?

Re: [vchkpw] Using chkuser as 'smtp-authentication' mechanism. WAS: [empf] Choosing a good SMTP_AUTH patch

2005-09-14 Thread Bruno Negrao
Hi Dave, I just discovered that the chkuser-2.0.8b-release ships with a netqmail-1.05_auth-0.4.2_chkuser-2.0.8.patch. Maybe this is the patch Matt is referring to. And I'm not sure, but I guess that this patch is Dr Erwin's auth patch(the one shipped in vpopmail's contrib directory) but

Re: [vchkpw] Using chkuser as 'smtp-authentication' mechanism. WAS: [empf] Choosing a good SMTP_AUTH patch

2005-09-14 Thread Bruno Negrao
Thanks Tony. Now I understood. So I conclude that Matt was mistaken when he told that chkuser could do smtp-authentication. Is that right Matt? Regards, bnegrao - Original Message - From: tonix (Antonio Nati) To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Re: [vchkpw] Using chkuser as 'smtp-authentication' mechanism. WAS: [empf] Choosing a good SMTP_AUTH patch

2005-09-14 Thread Matt Brookings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Negrao wrote: Thanks Tony. Now I understood. So I conclude that Matt was mistaken when he told that chkuser could do smtp-authentication. Is that right Matt? No, you were mistaken when you thought I meant the chkusr patch did SMTP

Re: [vchkpw] Using chkuser as 'smtp-authentication' mechanism. WAS: [empf] Choosing a good SMTP_AUTH patch

2005-09-14 Thread Bruno Negrao
No, you were mistaken when you thought I meant the chkusr patch did SMTP authentication. I said it works *with* SMTP authentication. The mistake I made, earlier, is that I replied with a chkusr patch link instead of SMTP authentication :) My bad! Ah! heheheheh. :-) No problem. bruno.