Re: Checking on VPOPMail 1.00

Ignacio Agulló wrote:
> 
> "Tomas Kuliavas" <[email protected]>, Lun 01 Feb 2010 19:51:16
> CET:
>>
>>>> Maybe pop3 service does not handle space correctly. Which pop3 server
>>>> are
>>>> you using? qmail, courier or dovecot?
>>>
>>>       Sorry for the delay.  It is qmail.
>>
>> Could you test same software for POP3 server as the one that you use for
>> IMAP?
> 
>       If you mean whether qmail is used for both POP3 and IMAP, AFAIK it
> is.
> 
>       Seems that VPOPMail relies on a shell line to change the  
> password, but then spaces at the start of the password are read as  
> separation spaces before the password argument.  That's why POP3 fails  
> with passwords starting with spaces...
> 
>       ... and IMAP access could fail as well.  Don't take my word for  
> it, but at the end of the password tests, the password was set at '  
> b2' (space before b2).  Then I logged off SquirrelMail and tried to  
> log in, but I couldn't.  I had to ask the mail administrator to read  
> what the password was.  Maybe spaces cause trouble with IMAP access as  
> well, or maybe I typed too many passwords and forgot the last one.   
> New tests should be done to check this out (a single one could  
> suffice), but I shouldn't do more tests on passwords for now.  Anyway,  
> I suppose people here (on SquirrelMail development) probably know  
> better about this.
> 

Standard Qmail package includes POP3 server, but it does not have IMAP.
There are no patches that add IMAP service to Qmail. If you use vpopmail,
you can use three different IMAP servers with SquirrelMail. It is Courier
IMAP, Dovecot and BincIMAP. BincIMAP is too simple for webmail use. If you
use courier or dovecot for IMAP and POP3 and passwords with spaces work only
in IMAP, contact courier or dovecot developers. IMAP and POP3 protocols
support passwords with spaces. if POP3 server says syntax error, when POP
client submits password with 'PASS<space><space><space><space>', POP3 server
must be fixed. Commands and arguments are separated with only one space in
POP3. So other three spaces in that command is user's password.

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