On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Daniel Guerrero wrote: > hi fellows, > I read the document of virtual mail (or something like that... sorry I > don't remember the name), and I made all the steps and again, because > is not working; maybe I'm a little confused, but postfix it's working > good, I'm receiving mails and sending the mails of virtual hosts fine, > but I can't login to imap/pop3; I have to use pop3 because it seem the > firewall of the school don't make me access to the port of imap; I have > tried to login with telnet, with the password in the "clear" field of > mysql; but I can't login, imap don't say anything, just close the > connection; pop3 says can't login; what do you think this could be, and > last; this is surely a config that I haven't reached, but how could I > configure squirrelmail to manage the local user accounts? (I haven't > check a lot but it seem to be working the local mail accounts), and > could I use squirremail to manage multiple domains, I think the answer > is yes... but how.
First off, why not use pop3s and imaps? I doubt they firewall those. They probably don't even know what they are. As far as login to pop/imap, if you're using virtual hosts, then I assume they don't have "real" accounts on the system. I'm also assuming from what you wrote that the accounts are stored in mysql. So, you need to be able to authenticate off a mysql database. You also need to learn about PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). First, do a google search for "Linux PAM" (the first result will be the PAM homepage, which I can never remember). Also look at /etc/pam.d/. You'll be interested in imap and pop, of course. And you'll also want to emerge pam-mysql. Follow various instructions, and set it up. I'm assuming you want to replace unix authentication with mysql authentication (more secure, although not useful if you are not in the mysql database). These are very rough basics with not much actual detail, but I'll be happy to answer further questions. As far as using squirrelmail to manage multiple domains, probably. You should go to squirrelmail's homepage and look at the available plugins. -- Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
