Howdy folks:
After bashing my head against the wall for nearly a week trying to get Paul
Gregg's Single-UID POP box scheme working, I happened upon vpopmail. (I'm
sure Paul's instrux are just fine and I'm the idiot who can't get them to
work...)
Within 20 minutes, I had vpopmail downloaded, built, and up and running. My
first attempt at creating a virtual account was a huge success. I was able
to send mail to that account without a hitch and verified that it arrived by
poking around in the ./Maildir/new directory for that user's account. What
a RELIEF!
However, the problem I'm having is that I cannot access the account's POP
box. I get an authorization failed (a "bad login" on my mail client and a
"login failure" in /var/log/mail.log .) when I try to log in to get the
mail.
I've tried all manner of logins (user w/o domain, user with domain, a "@", a
"%", etc...) with the correct password. I even reset the password and still
no luck.
I've got a semi-standard tcpserver set of lines for the pop stuff in my
qmail startup script (as suggested by the INSTALL doc):
env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin" \
tcpserver -H -R 0 pop3 \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup my.domain.com \
/~vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \
/var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
I run Linux (Mandrake's latest), qmail 1.03, pop3 is in /etc/services,
tcpserver is running (as far as I know). Should "pop3d" be running as a
background process? Or is it just called when needed?
Is there anything blatantly obvious I'm missing here? I feel that I'm SOOOO
close to having this whole thing working and maybe it's just something
stupid that I'm omitting.
Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions.
-wm. christman
