Re: logging of wrong passwords or usernames

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:22:23 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.checkpassword
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chand . <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have installed qmail pop3d as per instructions in lifewithqmail. But when
> my users type incorrect password, it is not showing up anything in the
> /var/log/maillog.

Not surprising; qmail-pop3d does no logging at all.

> How do I configure it so that when a user types wrong password, it is then
> logged in /var/log/maillog ??

It's complex, but it can be done.  How to do so has been described numerous
times on the qmail mailing list (where this question probably belongs) --
please see the qmail list archives for details.

Charles
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