steven n fettig's Jitterin' Thoughts

    I know it has been forever since I last wrote about working on auth-smtp for Oliver's qmail howto (it is still Oliver's considering he wrote the original ;)), but life has kept me busy beyond anything I could have ever imagined. I am still nowhere nearer to being a programmer than I was a year ago, so I have to desperately rely on other people's work and knowledge to get things with my email server to work properly. In the mean-time, I have come across a number howto's relating to auth-smtp. While I haven't tested any of it myself, I think if I publish the list I am working through, perhaps someone who has more time than me can come up with the installation instructions. I am making a huge move of my equipment in a few weeks (moving to a new location - new house, new infrastructure and most importantly - a backup generator!) and I expect at that time to test a new qmail server which includes the auth-smtp routine. There are apparently two main ways of going about installing/configuring auth-smpt. The most important issue for those of you using the qmail-vpopmail combination is that you realize that users must be authenticated using vchkpw and not checkpasswd. Here are some of the links I have been looking at (REMEMBER: this is for people who have a good concept of how to hack with *nix servers - not for the novice):
- qmail-smtpd-auth (the main link I will likely use to revise the howto)
- Interazioni: Qmail / vpopmail page
- Re: qmail-smtpd-auth
- EnderUNIX Software Development Team
Hopefully some of these links will help. Please, pretty please, comment if they do and if you have a simple list of directions that go along with the layout of the howto that Oliver originally wrote.