[H-GEN] Problems retrieving mail when using Qmail with vpopmail

[Nikolai Lusan]

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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Rick Phillips wrote:

> I have recently set up a Mandrake 8.2 box with Qmail and Vpopmail.  I have

Not my tools of choice but they should do the job, pop-serverA ==
pop-serverB in my experince :)


> The problem is that neither inside the network nor outside the network (on
> the internet) can I retrieve the mail.  It simply does not recognise the
> password.  There is obviously something missing in the authentication and
> for a day and a half now I have pounded my head against the wall.  I think
> the problem surrounds vchkpw which is part of Vpopmail.  Why did I use
> Vpopmail?  Because I was told that Qmailadmin was a dream to use (and it is)
> and that it needs it, and that I should always set up my mail as virtual
> mail in case I want to use another domain name (and I do).

To quote from the vpopmail site "It works with vqadmin, qmailadmin,
vqregister, sqwebmail, and courier-imap." so my guess is that qmailadmin
is the tool of choice for the person who told you about this solution.
My main question would be have you tried poping from telnet and if so
what exactly did the server say? I can't say I see whole heaps of
information on configuration availble.

Personally in these situations I prefer to use a db or ldap for smtp/pop
authing and ensure each user has a unique username, it makes things much
easier to manage. I also user a different MTA which doesn't use the
maildir format so email is a single file for each user.


> (Nikolai will read this and laugh his head off).

I had a minor chuckle, then I looked for vpopmail docs that might help.
I can't say I like the look of it.


Nikolai


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