Well.. vchkpw wouldn't be used in this pic since it illustrates mail delivery with qmail. But vdelivermail does get used in mail delivery.
When the delivery reaches qmail-local, qmail-local searches in the home directory of the user (as assigned in /home/of/qmail/users/assign, and in actuality, qmail reads the cdb file and not the actual assign text file) for any .qmail files. In every ~vpopmail/domains/domain.dom directory exists a .qmail-default file which pipes over to vdelivermail. vdelivermail searches for the Maildir of the user and drops the mail into their box, if it can't find the user it then does the next step defined to it. Which can be bounce-no-mailbox, where is bounces the message back to the sender when it can't find a mailbox, it can just quietly delete the message and not bounce anything back to the sender but also not deliver it to a box, or it can send it to the "catch all" account. vchkpw is the password checking utility to authenticate a user. It's used in pop3d and imapd for authenticating users. -Clayton -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vchkpw] Where is vchkpw in this pic? Hi, Could someone explain to me where in this pic vpopmail intercepts? http://www.nrg4u.com/qmail/the-big-qmail-picture-103-p1.gif Thanks Malcolm
