Re: FW: IMAP + QMAIL
Did you make sure to compile courier-imap with PAM support? I don't remember
from when I compiled it but you probably have to specify this. This is what I'm
using. Your AUTHMODULES should contain authpam. It would seem that authshadow
should've worked but it wouldn't if you're using md5 passwords (this is
specified when you install the box). Once you've got authpam in there you'll
need to add an /etc/pam.d/imap file if it doesn't exist. Mine is just:
auth required pam_unix_auth.so shadow nullok
account required pam_unix_acct.so
session required pam_unix_session.so
Give that a try. If you want to test in a more controlled way you can telnet to
the server and talk IMAPV41 directly. Telnet to it from the machine it's running
on with: telnet localhost 143. You'll get a response like:
* OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2000 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING
for distribution information.
Now, as for the basics, each IMAP command is tagged so the first token just
needs to be some tag. The command we want to test is the 'login' command which
takes the login name and password as extra tokens. So, you'll type in:
1 login <user> <password>
and if all is good you'll get the response:
1 OK LOGIN Ok.
But if the authentication fails you'll get back:
1 NO Login failed.
This will tell you if it's really working or not since with Outlook you never
know what the !@#$ it's doing.
You can then just logout with:
2 logout
Try these things out and let me know.
"Wesley A. Wannemacher" wrote:
> Okay, I have all the test users to Maildir/ format, I also installed the
> courier-imap package that you suggested. But I still cannot seem to get
> the email to work properly. I tried the authshadow and the authpwd
> AUTHMODULES in the /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd.config file, nothing
> has worked. I will outline the basic steps below of what I have done and
> I will try to (conservatively) paste the contents of some of the config
> files for qmail. I think I must be missing something. Any help is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> 1. I downloaded and installed the following packages
> - qmail
> - daemontools 0.70
> - ucspci 0.88
> 2. I configured everything and qmail appears to be sending/recieving email
> - I followed all the TEST.* files that came with the qmail source
> everything checked out.
> 3. I downloaded and built courier-imap
> - every time I try to connect with Outlook/Outlook Express I get
> error:
> There may be server or network problems or your timeout interval may
> be too short.
> Account: X.X.X.X
> Protocol: IMAP
> Server: X.X.X.X
> Port: 143
> Where X.X.X.X is the IP address of the potential IMAP server. Are there
> any other tests I can run? What other output would be beneficial? courier-
> imap did not complain when it was build, nor does it complain when it
> runs.
>
> Wes
>
> Wesley Wannemacher
> wawannem@nc.edu
> Network Administrator, Instructor
> Northwestern College
> http://www.nc.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens B. Jorgensen [mailto:jens.jorgensen@cmgisolutions.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 11:00 AM
> To: Wesley A. Wannemacher
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: FW: IMAP + QMAIL
>
> That's a strong possibility. If you're using shadow and WU uses getpwnam
> rather than
> getspnam, it won't get the password and won't be able to authenticate. Does
> WU IMAP
> support PAM authentication? That would make your life easier if it can be
> built with
> PAM support since then the actual authentication checking is done is shared
> libraries.
>
> I've been a longtime qmail (with maildirs) user and I highly recommend the
> use of
> maildirs rather than the old mailbox files. The only imap server I've gotten
> to work
> satisfactorily for me is courier-imap. This is a maildir-only imap server
> which I
> found naturally enough on the qmail web site. The link is:
> http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/
>
> "Wesley A. Wannemacher" wrote:
>
> > I recently rebuilt a Linux box here at our office,
> > I am trying to set the machine up to do email for us.
> > I have successfully installed qmail, now I would like
> > to get WU IMAP up and running. The software is building
> > just fine, I even hacked the code to make it read the
> > ~/Mailbox instead of the /var/spool/mail/$USER file.
> > Now everytime I try to connect to the server with an
> > IMAP client, I cannot authenticate. I think this has
> > something to do with shadow, but I am not completely
> > sure. Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Wes
> >
> > Wesley Wannemacher
> > wawannem@nc.edu
> > Network Administrator, Instructor
> > Northwestern College
> > http://www.nc.edu
> >
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