Giulio Fidente wrote: > Tony Earnshaw wrote: >> I've (we've) never had any problems with >> SquirrelMail (or Thunderbird, or Evolution, or Outlook Express or >> Postfix for that matter) but we *have* had problems with Courier IMAP >> and authlib on Red Hat RHAS4. To the extent that not only my head, but >> my balls, ears and wig have been demanded alongside my head and I've >> been left quaking after just recovering my system just before the max >> downtime specified in rfc2821 (our MTA was off line for 4 days, no, we >> don't run any backup MTA, read the Postfix ML). > > uhm... we're using courier-imap/authlib on many differents email > platforms built on rhas/rhes (also with redhat global file system) and > all is working well > > i'm sure many others uses successfully the same applications, but never > can exclude a particular and buggy context, so how can i follow the > thread were you're speaking about the mentioned problem? (hoping can be > useful)
Well, if you're as good as Brian (which surely can not be possible ;) here is what I wrote as starters on 27. feb 2006. Perhaps beginning a new thread might be useful? But I note that neither Sam or brian has replied to date: _________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm an OpenLDAP fiend, have been so for 4-5 years. OpenLDAP 2.3.20 delta syncrepl is the heart of our 5-IBM eSeries-server high-school (1150+ users) RHAS4/Smooth Wall/LTSP/mail/Samba 2.0.21 network. I've worked with Courier IMAP/maildrop for 3 years and was one of the first to adopt and configure LDAP-based authlib on my 2 test rigs, when it appeared. Both for Courier IMAP and maildrop. Obviously I've proved that I can configure both for LDAP. authlib worked perfectly on RHAS3. As soon as I upgraded both test rigs to RHAS4, Courier authlib compiled but would not work with LDAP any more. I'd tried for at least 6 months to get it working. Debug level 2 output to /var/log/maillog indicated that my authldaprc was incorrectly configured. It did this through standalone Courier IMAP 3.0.7 to authlib 0.58. Baloney. The Courier authlib daemon was the only thing on the system that did this, Samba (3.0 all versions), Postfix (2.2 and 2.3), maildrop 1.7.0 etc. all worked perfectly. Test rigs are an IBM ThinkPad T23 and a Compaq E700, both notebooks - e.g. IDE. Last week I installed RHAS4 on an IBM eSeries x256 SCSI RAID5 IBM ServRaid controller mail/OpenLDAP server. Began on Monday (school vacation). Courier authlib 0.58 rpms made on my test servers gave the same errors as above. I tried dovecot (0.99-11 and 1.0.3beta) but ... hmmm ... dovecot ... doesn't seem to like our virtual LDAP setup : /home/vmail/group/user/Maildir ... nuff said about dovecot. Postfix 2.3 LDAP worked, maildrop standalone worked, everything worked, just not authlib LDAP. No, I can't use authlib PAM - doesn't work with our virtual mailbox LDAP setup with quotas. Friday around 4 pm, in sheer despair (school began again today, Monday) I built authlib 0.58 (rpm) on the new server, instead of using the rpm from my test server. Glory be, it worked (authtest, first). Everything works now. rpms made on the new server work on both my test servers (so I doubt that this is system-specific, e.g. libraries etc). Courier IMAP 4.0.6 built on one of the test machines works on the new server (but that has nothing to do with LDAP, of course). Can any RHAS4 boffin on this list even indicate why Courier authlib rpms built on one machine work on all machines and those built on another don't work on any machines? For the record, the new machine was built from RHAS4 update 2 CDROMs and immediately up2dated before any further installs; one test server is pure RHAS4 original and one is RHAS4 partially up2dated to update 2. I've bothered the list once before about this (about 6 months ago), but the only answer I got was from Brian Candler (BSD person, bless him) and I always had the feeling that this was a Red Hat problem and I had to solve it on my own. --Tonni -- Tony Earnshaw Systeembeheer, Barlaeus Gymnasium, Amsterdam _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ -- tonni at barlaeus.nl Tony Earnshaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
