Courier & vpopmail
Hi Gurus!
Recently I installed a combination of Courier IMAP/POP, Sqwebmail and
vpopmail on a Debian Woody server. I downloaded inofficial vpopmail
packages for woody. I also built the several Courier and Courier-SSL
packages from source after having changed the rules file to include
"--with-authvchkpw". Everything seemed to work fine.
Unfortunately after having gone productive severe problems with
POP3/IMAP authentification occured. Sometimes the login procedure
worked, but very often it did not. At that time the authentification
used courier-authdaemon.
I learnt from a posting on the vpopmail mailing list that Courier's
authdaemon is not very stable and that authentification problems get
solved when compiling Courier using "--without-authdaemon".
I tried that - but it initiated several new problems. Courier's build
configuration script told me that "--without-authdaemon" needs
"--without-ldap". So I tried that. Unfortunately everything got worse.
My impression is that the Courier Debian package is not prepared for
being built without LDAP or authdaemon. There are several dependencies
between the several components of the Courier packages. I still try to
figure them out.
My question is: Did anyone install Courier IMAP/POP, Sqwebmail and
vpopmail on a Woody box? If yes: Do you use courier-authdaemon and if
so, is vpopmail authentification working well? If you do not use
courier-authdaemon, how did you get built Courier Debian packages without?
Any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Bye
Dieter
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