Chris Seawood wrote:
>
> Ken Jones wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have vpopmail working with smtp authentication?
>
> A couple of weeks ago, I posted an updated patch to let smtp-auth use
> vpopmail 4.8.6 for authentication. The original instructions are still
> at http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/faq.html .
>
> > I'm trying to make the
> > http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/
> > code work with vpopmail and netscape 4.72. But
> > no luck so far.
>
> As Kevin Bucknum pointed out, make sure that you uncomment the
> SMTPAUTH_NETSCAPE_WORKAROUND define in qmail-smtpd.c.
>
> - cls
I got it working. If I run qmail-smtpd as the vpopmail user,
then there is no need for the patch to vchkpw.c
I'm wondering how much overhead it takes to go the getuid
function call in vchkpw. If it doesn't take much, we might
as well add the check to the distribution.
Ken
