Re: [webmin-l] sendmail and POP

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

da...@so... wrote ..
> Hi,
> Thanks, contributors and Jamie, this has really evolved over the last 
> two years.
> 
> Two questions:
> 1. How do I, if I can, set up user mail authentication for send mail 
> using only username instead of username.domain?

Is this for SMTP authentication for sending email? If so, I don't think that
is possible .. although I haven't used SMTP authentication much myself.

> 2. More complicated. Sendmail, irregandless of what I tell it, dumps 
> the mail in var/spool/mail (slackware) where usermin can see it but 
> POP can't pick it up. I have sendmail and virtualmin setup to send it to
> /home......  I run qpopper as a standalone POP server to pick up mail 
> from the /home path. when I remotely authentic, POP works but no 
> mail gets picked up because it's not there.
> 
> If I set things up to just make all things easy by using the 
> /var/spool/mail path and the qpopper set to default mail goes to 
> /var/spool/mail but popper won't authenticate and pick it up. I get an
> invalid username/password error. Any help or thoughts on the matter

One possible solution would be to install procmail and configure Sendmail to deliver using it. Then create an /etc/procmailrc file like :

:0
$HOME/Mailbox

This tells procmail to deliver all messages to users' ~/Mailbox files.

 - Jamie