Re: ERR: Authentication Failure :-(

"Neil David J. Roberts" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I created directories in /home usind "maildirmake name", followed by
> doing a chown name.name on cur/, tmp/ and new/. The users were then
> addes in passwd using the adduser command (debian linux).

If that's really what you did, then you should have noticed the error
message from chown telling you that the accounts didn't exist.

> Anyway, the problem is, that I telnet to port 110, send my user and
> pass information, and it gives me an authentication failure.

qmail-popup gives that message for any error from checkpassword or
qmail-pop3d; the checkpassword interface doesn't let it distinguish
between the two.  Your problem seems to be with qmail-pop3d, not
checkpassword.

> maybe a pointer to the problem can be that qmail-smtpd can't find
> the mailboxes

qmail-smtpd doesn't deal with mailboxes.  qmail-pop3d and qmail-local
do.  If your POP3 service runs "qmail-pop3d Maildir", then qmail-pop3d
will expect to find Maildir/tmp, Maildir/new, and Maildir/cur in the
user's home directory.  But you said you created the home directories
themselves as maildirs.  Try this for each user:
cd ~user
rmdir tmp new cur
maildirmake Maildir


paul