Sorry about the redundant post, but I just subscribed to the list and I couldn't reach the archives. I didn't even think to read the UPGRADE doc or look in the contrib.
Anyway, this did the trick, beside the fact that the CRAM-MD5 authenticates against the clear text password and the particular client that is asking for this has requested clear passwords disabled. Oh Well. Thanks a lot for the help! -- Jared On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Alex Pleiner wrote: > * Jared Seipel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-27 17:35]: > > > I'm having a strange issue with getting vchkpw to accept cram-md5 > > authentications via SMTP and I was wondering if anyone knows where I'm > > going wrong or if anyone has a similar issue. > > > I'm running vpopmail 5.4.0 and qmail patched with qmail-smtpd-auth-0.31. > > Login and Plain auths are working fine, but Cram-Md5 auths aren't, and > > here's why. > > Your question has been answered more than once. > > Please read the file UPGRADE. It says: > > <quote> > IF USING SMTP AUTH PATCH TO QMAIL-SMTPD > > * This release of vpopmail includes fixes for vchkpw that may break > certain SMTP AUTH implementations. If SMTP AUTH fails after > installing vpopmail 5.4.x, you may need to use the > qmail-smtpd-auth-0.4.2 patch included in the contrib directory. > > * If you do switch to the 0.4.2 SMTP AUTH patch, you may need to update > your qmail-smtpd run file (the first parameter to qmail-smtpd should > now be the path to vchkpw and not the hostname). > </quote> > > Hope this helps. > > -- > Alex Pleiner > zeitform Internet Dienste Fraunhoferstrasse 5 > 64283 Darmstadt, Germany > http://www.zeitform.de Tel.: +49 (0)6151 155-635 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49 (0)6151 155-634 > GnuPG/PGP Key-ID: 0x613C21EA >
