I have a single passwd, but it's not a system passwd.
I installed qmail with vpopmail, and then had sqwebmail and Courier-IMAP
work with vpopmail's authentication and directory structure.
Pop and smtp are handled by qmail, and imap is handled by Corier-IMAP.
I can user the server with any type of MUA.
I thought this was a common configuration?
Mathew Simon wrote:
>
> It is a problem due to the lack of an integrated architecture/design.
> According to the software author's website, the Sqwebmail and the
> Courier-IMAP evolved as two separate pieces of software and originally never
> designed/architecture together. Each piece of software evolved separately,
> re-using some code and/design. But still never had an integrated design. I
> won't blame the author (Sam), since he has displayed a lot of other good
> qualities like sharing his software on the Internet, taking the pain to
> answer user's serious questions, and displaying the willingness to look into
> ways to improve his software.
>
> As per a recent posting by the author, he is currently looking into the
> problem of consolidating the passwords at a single place, that is at
> "system" level. I am separately forwarding that posting to you. If you have
> the guts to install experimental software, the author has the latest piece
> of beta code that incorporates this feature.
>
> I evaluated many different softwares for MTA, IMAP and webmail. I found only
> one (free) software that incorporates the "maildir" feature. Also, if you
> have virtual domains and has only one IP, then "Courier-IMAP" seems to be
> the only way to implement a serious email system with multiple virtual
> domains. I know that the user's of Sqwebmail are primarily of Qmail fans.
> But for MTA there exist a good other choice called "postfix"
> (www.postfix.org) and it has a decent security oriented architecture.
>
> The sqwebmail has a very good interface. The postfix is a very good MTA.
> These were my choices after serious software evaluations. So, courier-IMAP
> and its "authuserdb" seems to be the only way to implement virtual domains
> (with one single IP) using freely available software. Carnegie Mellon
> University's Cyrus-IMAP is a very secure IMAP that uses its own
> authentication and mail handling mechanism, but has the limitation on email
> user names. That is, you cannot have more than one "Joe" as your email user.
>
> Thanks,
> Mathew Simon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Massimo Quintini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 2:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: two password
>
> Hallo...
>
> My users access to mailbox in two manners:
> 1) Client IMAP (Netspace Messenger or Outlook)
> 2) Sqwebmail
>
> Client IMAP uses password of machine's user
> Sqwebmail stores password in file "sqwebmail-pass" (located in
> ~/Maildir/) and user can change password: the result is that for
> accessing mailbox can exist 2 password, one for Sqwebmail and one for
> IMAP Client.
>
> How can I modify sqwebmail configuration, if possible, for having one
> password ??? (sqwebmail should use in any case machine password, I
> think...)
>
> Thanks. Massimo Quintini
>
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