Qmail Checkpassword Telnet 110

[gkfletch]

Hi

Iam trying to install qmail on a fedora 4 machine, all my qmail services are
running.
when i test the pop3 login via telnet with the correct username and password
it is not authorized.
has anyone experienced this problem, ive googled quite a bit and seen this
error on a few forums, no solutions.

[root@serv checkpassword-0.90]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup blah
/bin/checkpassword pwd
+OK <3463.1151156211@blah>
user mailadmin
+OK
pass mail
/home/mailadmin

[root@serv checkpassword-0.90]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <3468.1151156226@pop.artscape.co.za>
user mailadmin
+OK
pass mail
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.

PLS HELP!!!

[tux2]

Hi there,

Nice to see someone trying out one of the best mail servers out there.

Have you configured qmail with virtual domain/s?

If you have, you need to log in with the fully qualified domain like this:

user my_email@my.domain
pass my_password

This will work.

A good read is at "http://www.qmailrocks.org"

Qmail is a fairly complex mail server to set up on any fedora due to some issues
with compiling but very effecient and secure. You may have installed a package
though which is a bit easier - I compiled mine on Fedora 3.

Originally Posted by gkfletch

Hi

Iam trying to install qmail on a fedora 4 machine, all my qmail services are
running.
when i test the pop3 login via telnet with the correct username and password
it is not authorized.

[...snip...]

[root@serv checkpassword-0.90]# telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <3468.1151156226@pop.artscape.co.za>
user mailadmin
+OK
pass mail
-ERR authorization failed
Connection closed by foreign host.

PLS HELP!!!

[gkfletch]

Hey Tux2, thanks for the info, after a few installs and lots of &^%#^^& i decided to download the source from scratch and try again... its working so thanks for the reply.

The only thing that I can think of, I copied the source from a cd and did not change the -r -r - attrib to rw -r - on the source files.
cheers