vchkpw: vpopmail user not found

Alan Murrell

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Aug 29, 2002, 7:34:42 PM8/29/02

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Hello,

I installed the latest Qmail, Vpopmail (stable, not development), and
Courier-IMAP, daemontools, and ucspi-tcp, following the instructions in
"Bill;'s Qmail Toaster Guide".

I then created a virtual domain using vadddomain (for this example, I will
use virtualdomain1.com as the domain). I then added
'webm...@virtualdomain1.com', and got prompted to create a password, which
I did.

I sent a test email from my Yahoo! account, and it got to the mailbox just
fine. However, when I attempt to retrieve the email using any mail client, I
keep getting prompted for the username/password. The /var/log/maillog says:

vchkpw: vpopmail user not found webm...@virtualdomain1.com:<IP ADDRESS>

I am using webm...@virtualdomain1.com as the username (since
virtualdomain1.com isn't the default domain), and in the
/var/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd.rc file, I do have 'AUTHDOMAINS="vchkpw"'.

I tried deleting then re-adding the domain, however, it does not seem to
work. It seems that I am only able to either get login working correctly, or
mail sent to the mailbox correctly, but not both together (I was having the
problem before where loging in as the user was working, but mail was being
bounced back saying "user not know", even though the user *did* exist)

Your help greatly appreciated.

Alan Murrell swasak@hotmailcom

Alan Murrell

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Aug 29, 2002, 8:13:04 PM8/29/02

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One thing I thought I should mention is the version of the packages I am
using:

daemontools: 0.76
ucspi-tcp: 0.88
qmail: 1.03
vpopmail: 5.2.1
courier-imap: 1.5.3.20020823

I haven't yet installed Qmailadmin, etc. yet.. Hopefully this helps a bit
:-)

Alan Murrell swa...@hotmail.com

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Aug 30, 2002, 12:22:19 PM8/30/02

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Alan Murrell <swa...@hotmail.com> scribbled in
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BINGO! Vpopmail-5.2.1! Get rid of it! It has KNOWN vchkpw issues. Use at
least 5.3.7 which was deemed stable enough for production. Alternatively
you could go to an older version of vpopmail (v5.0) and download a special
preauthvchkpw.c file to make it work.

If you can't find the specific preauthvchkpw.c file and you want to use it,
let me know. I have it archived.

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Alan Murrell

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Aug 30, 2002, 6:18:17 PM8/30/02

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> BINGO! Vpopmail-5.2.1! Get rid of it! It has KNOWN vchkpw issues. Use
at
> least 5.3.7 which was deemed stable enough for production.

I downloaded 5.3.8, and used the following ./configure options (same as with
the 5.2):

./configure --enabe-default-domain=virtualdomain.com --enable-roaming-users=
y --enable-logging=v

I am getting the same problem. Authorization fails on both the default
domain and the virtual domain. I have done both 'qmailctl stat' and
'vpopmail stat', and everything is running just fine. I was looking at the
"qinstall" package, and was thinking about trying to use that. Any
experiences (positive or negative??) with using that package? or, if there
are any further suggestions, they would also be appreciated.

TIA,

Alan Murrell swa...@hotmail.com

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Aug 31, 2002, 7:27:57 AM8/31/02

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Alan Murrell <swa...@hotmail.com> scribbled in

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Dang the bad luck! ok....let me post the commands I used to install
vpopmail. Then you can compare those with your own. (I'm running Slackware
8.1...BTW) Note: This is NOT a script file. This is however something
that can be cut and pasted to the CLI.

I kinda developed my OWN qinstall package. I'm still working out the bugs in
the scripts, but my server installation time has dropped dramatically. I've
taken to just copying and pasting my script to the command line because I'm
su'ing to the compile user then exiting back out. That causes havoc with
the script...and until I get some more of that UNIX101 experience under my
belt....I won't be able to put it in script form. I keep an entire log
file of step by step installation steps for each product (qmail, sqwebmail,
courier, qmail-scanner, NetSSLeay, TimeDate (perl module), and a slew of
other stuff. It will be probably another month before I can finish
perfecting it (I'm having a "vpopmail not creating the lib files in
~vpopmail/lib" issue that I want to resolve. The same commands seem to
work, but I have to run it multiple times. Go figure.)

Well, here's what *I* did. Notice how I turned off every authentication
function EXCEPT vchkpw? :) ok...well, quotfix for MSOE is going to
properly wrap these lines....so I'm going to put a blank line between each
command line so that you can stitch it back together.

#[vpopmail setup]

#[optional compile user setup]

#create a compile user

groupadd compile

useradd -c 'compile user' compile -d /dev/null -g compile -s /bin/bash -u
2525

#assign some directory rights to user compile

chown compile:compile /usr/src

mkdir -p /usr/download; chown compile:compile /usr/download

#[/optional compile user setup]

#download and install VPOPMAIL

# *note development version used to fulfill feature requirements

cd /usr/download

su compile

wget http://www.inter7.com/devel/vpopmail-5.3.7.tar.gz

cd /usr/src

tar -zxvf /usr/download/vpopm*

exit

cd /usr/src/vpop*

groupadd -g 89 vchkpw

useradd -g vchkpw -u 89 -d /home/vpopmail vpopmail

./configure --enable-roaming-users=y --enable-clear-passwd=y --enable-loggin
g=e

make

make install-strip

echo '10.1.27.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=\"\"' >> ~vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp

#[/vpopmail setup]

#[courier-imap setup]

chmod 707 ~vpopmail/lib

chmod 606 ~vpopmail/lib/*

cd /usr/download

su compile

wget
http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/courier/courier-imap-1.5.1.tar.g
z

cd /usr/src

tar -zxvf /usr/download/courier-imap-1.5.1.tar.gz

cd courier-imap-1.5.1

./configure --disable-auto-rename-sent --without-authpwd --without-authshado
w --without-authpam --without-authuserdb --without-authmysql --without-authp
gsql --without-authldap

make

echo Press Enter to continue;read #notice the pauses? They let us see if
the make was successful before continuing

make check