on 3/2/01 4:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> I'm really not sure if this is possible, but here is my question.
>
> With VPOPMail, you can support /etc/passwd users. With the POP3 daemon
> that comes with it, you can authenticate an /etc/passwd user and open up
> the relay for that user.
>
> Now, if you use another program that works off of the vpopmail library
> (such as courier imap for example) it will handle virtual domain users (in
> the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED]) but, it will NOT handle /etc/passwd users
> being passed down to the vpopmail authentication module and thus open a
> relay for that user.
>
> I suppose the answer would be to move the /etc/passwd users into a virtual
> domain and compile it with default domain, but it seems that since the
> vpopmail program can handle it, why can the library not handle it for
> other programs that support vpopmail authentication?
It should work. Just have courierimap ONLY use the authvchkpw module. And
if vchkpw is setup to authorize /etc/passwd users, it should work.
-Bill
