-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Guardiani Sent: 14 September 2005 17:32 To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: [vchkpw] safe to use with courier's authdaemon?
Hi Jesse, >Hello, >I haven't posted on this list in a while. I'm currently running 5.4.6. It looks >like two separate versions of vpopmail are being maintained. A "Stable" version >(5.4.x) on sourceforge, and... I see mention of a 5.5 version with a vpopmaild >from a thread back in August 2005, but I can't find a download for 5.5 on the >inter7 site anymore. Kinda scary. >So I've come up with three questions: >1.) I'm due for another round of mail server upgrades, and I've noticed that >courier imap on Gentoo is now more or less demanding authdaemon support. At one >time in the past, vpopmail was far too leaky to run under authdaemon. Is that >still the case? Or has it been cleaned up enough that authdaemon isn't a problem >anymore? I have just done this on our backup mail server, and found that it works fine - certainly with Sqwebmail. I built authdaemon thusly: ./configure --without-authpam --without-authldap --without-authpwd --without-authmysql --without-authpgsql --without-authshadow --without-authuserdb --without-authcustom --without-authcram --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw --with-mailuser=vpopmail --with-mailgroup=vchkpw You then need to put the line: /usr/local/sbin/authdaemond start Into your startup scripts. When building courier-sqwebmail or courier-imap, I found I needed to do the following before ./configure command: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH export PATH Then test the courierauthconfig command using Courierauthconfig --configfiles If you don't do the path bit, the ./configure fails with the "courier authdaemon not installed" message. >2.) Also, Mr. Sam seemed to be getting increasingly hostile toward the vpopmail >community. One such example was the disabling of vpopmail auth support (or was >it something related to pop-before-smtp? I can't remember the specifics, I just >know I'm running a patch for it right now) in sqwebmail due to a supposed >security vulnerability in vpopmail. Do Courier-IMAP & sqwebmail still work well >with vpopmail? Or is everyone beginning to look elsewhere? The only issue I think is IMAP before SMTP in version 4.x of courier-imap doesn't work, but I don't use IMAP yet here so it didn't bother me. Hope this all helps; I did this all for the first time a few weeks ago because we had a system made up for us ages ago before I worked here which I felt we needed to understand more and have later packages of. Andrew. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. allpay.net Limited, Fortis et Fides, Whitestone Business Park, Whitestone, Hereford, HR1 3SE. Telephone: 0870 243 3434, Fax: 0870 243 6041. Website: www.allpay.net Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **********************************************************************
