Howdy all,

I have qmail installed, and the vpopmail package.
I can log in fine from the office, as I enable relaying for the LAN, but logging in from home won't work like that unless I want to be an open relay server, which is a VERY BAD THING.

One solution is to use the --enable-roaming-users=y option in vpopmail, but I would prefer to use the qmail-smtp-auth patch.

http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/

It seems a cleaner solution to the problem. I have applied the patch, and get it working using the recommended cmd5checkpw program, using the /etc/poppasswd file to list the username/password pairs for smtp authentication.

But I'd like to replace cmd5checkpw with vchkpw so that the smtp authentication will use the same username/password pair as the pop authentication.

I have tried simply replacing the cmd5checkpw program with the vchkpw one in the supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file, but it doesn't seem to work. Surely it should be a trivial matter?

Perhaps anyone out there has already figured this out?

The relevant line from the /supervise/qmail-pop3d/run file:

exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x \
/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -R -H -l 0 -g 89 -u 89 0 110 \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
"$LOCAL" /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1

the relevant line from the /supervise/qmail-smtpd/run file:

exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x \
/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
# No idea why I type the -x option twice...
-c "$MAXSMTPD" -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd \
# "$LOCAL" /bin/cmd5checkpw /bin/true \
#above line replaced with this one
"$LOCAL" /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpwd /bin/true \
2>&1

I got the same problem,

I got an error -- 454 oops, unable to write pipe and I can't auth (#4.3.0)
Anyone can help me please?

my linux box : fedora core 1
qmail : http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.05.tar.gz

TLS + SMTP Auth patch :

http://shupp.org/patches/netqmail-1....20040207.patch

vpopmail : http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/vpopmail-5.4.0.tar.gz


the qmail-smtpd run script:
---------------------------------start------------
#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming`
LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me`
if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ];
then
echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in
echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then
echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!"
echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open
relay"
exit 1
fi
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 30000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -R -l 0 -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD"
\
-u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
"$LOCAL" /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true &

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if I close the smtp auth in my MTA, I can send and receive the email. The
qmail and the vpopmail all work well.

But if I open the smtp auth for my MTA, I will get the error message :
454 oops, unable to write pipe and I can't auth (#4.3.0). And the pop work
well.

anyone could help me, please.

Thanks,


Jason