Hi, Ben.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ben Schumacher wrote:
>Does anybody have any HOWTO's or suggestions on migrating from
>Courier-IMAP to BincIMAP? I'm using FreeBSD 4.7 and currently just
Sorry, we have no such document yet. The server is still in Beta, so
technical documentation and user documentation is pretty poor.. Any
feedback you can provide us with will help us write more documentation. :)
>Courier's builtin support for PAM authenticating users. When I first tried
>the standard /bin/checkpassword, it doesn't seem to be authenticating my
>users correctly. Unfortunately, my knowledge of IMAP as a protocol is
>limited, so I had difficult telling why authentication was failing, and I
>wasn't getting any output from Binc to my multilogs.
What we need to know here is:
0) The version of the server - telnet to port 143 and post the
greeting.
0.5) Are you running under xinetd or tcpserver, and if so, have you
modified the run files / service files? The bincimap.conf file?
If so, please post your changes.
1) Log output, what do the logs show when an authentication fails?
Logs may be in /var/log/messages or
/var/opt/log/bincimap{,-ssl}/current
2) The mailing list archives (check Binc's front page) will show
a few mentions of "openssl s_client -connect" and so on. This is
a test you can do manually to see if authentication works. Try
both telnet and openssl to connect, and please report to this list
what you find.
>Any suggestions on the easiest way to start? Eventually, I'd like to
>support other authentication methods to allow my virtual hosted users with
>account names in the format of [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be able to authenticate,
>as well, but right now only system accounts are going to be able to use my
>IMAP service.
On http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/software you will find the source of a
little program called "multichkpwds". It's designed to allow you to use
more than one authenticator (checkpassword + vchkpw, for instance).
We use it on the infeline.org server (hosting this mailing list) to allow
both virtual users (vpopmail) and system account users to use the same
webmail, imap, smtp and pop access. It works fine with Binc. You may want
to check it out. :-)
Andy
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Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
