Jacob Scott wrote:
>
> After musing on the mailing list and searching efnet, courier's website, and
> two or three smtp auth websites, I have dismal news. No SMTP authentication
> patch I can find works with vchkpw/vpopmail in its current incarnation.
> Being, unfortunatley, not a elite hacker/coder, I'm not in a position to
> make one either. =(. Anyway, being pragmatic, here goes: Is there a utility
> around to convert a vchkpw password db to checkpassword format? Then one
> could use the basic smtp-auth patch, and just copy your user info into
> checkpassword format and work around it that way.
>
> I find it a little surprsing, what with all the spam these days, and the
> issues between MAPS and ORBS, that there isnt a lot of concern over securing
> SMTP servers. Then again, maybe everyone uses --enable-roaming-users and
> POP. But an IMAP compatible solution should exsist somewhere.
>
> Otherwise, my qmail/qmailadmin/vpopmail/courier-imap mailserver is working
> great. Just like to give thanks to kbo, djb, mrsam, and all the other ppl
> who gave us this alternative to Sendmail.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacob
I'd be willing to take a crack at it. Can you point me to
the code for smtp-auth and some pointers on what needs
to be done?
Ken Jones
