Re: [courier-users] Courier-mta and vpopmail authetication problem.

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:15, you wrote:
> > I installed the whole courier-mta package (not only courier-imap/authlib)
> > and vpopmail (latest versions), installation and compilation went fine so
> > it all looks good now. However, every time when I try to logging to the
> > pop server I get a message saying that the authentication failed, I have
> > run some tests with vpopmail and its mysql db. Vpopmail is accessing the
> > user db and maildirs without problems and it also seems that courier's
> > authentication is going half way through as vpopmail is logging the last
> > ip used to connect to my test account, so there is something happening.
>
> I suspect that the problem is because the pop server is not being
> provided with the Maildir directory from vpopmail. Try this patch:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/vpopma...et&target=cour
>ier-authlib-vpopmail.patch

It actually works now, the problem was that vpopmail relies on qmail's assign
file, it checks this file before doing anything and if the domain that you
are trying to login is not in there it fails to authenticate.

Funny, it was so easy that I couldn't figure out.

Regards,
Vini

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