[...] Did not compile from source, used Debian packages. Installed
Ahh...
courier-debug which gives me courierauthtest. Here is problem:
Temporary authentication failure from module authdaemon Authentication FAILED!
/etc/courier/authdaemonrc is using by default: authmodulelist="authpam"
It appears that I need to be able to create login and password somewhere
for courier to work.
I don't think authpam by itself will ever be sufficient, if you don't use the default path "./Maildir" for mail delivery/access.
AFAIK, the PAM modules can only validate usernames and passwords (*maybe* home dirs, since you got that info in your later test, but I didn't really think it did that much even), and so can't be set to return any other information such as the maildir path, full name, quota, etc.
I don't know anything about the Deb. packages, but you might see if there's one that sets Courier up for using userdb or other virtual hosting scenarios... rather than defaulting to your system users only like this package seems to have done.
HTH.
As for the fact that you had to reboot... I bet you didn't need to.
Are you sure you were running authdaemond.xxx already? It's one of the most common steps omitted, I think, when someone is having problems like that with authentication. I'll bet you installed the command in your rc files (or the package did), but didn't run the "authdaemond start" script as root or via sudo to start an appropriate authdaemond.xxx version during the current boot. That would seem to explain why the restart fixed the "Authentication FAILED!" problem.
It's irrelevant at this point of course... your uptime is shot already, too late to avoid it ;) ... but anyway I suspect that was the problem.
-jab
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