make sure you compile courier using --without-authdaemon --with-authvchkpw
Michael. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:33 AM Subject: [vchkpw] Courier IMAP & vchkpw problem > Hi, > > I was happily using vpopmail 5.2.1 and qmailadmin. Everything was fine. > > However, our clients demanded some form of webmail access, so after trying a > few packages, I settled for SquirrelMail (PHP pages that we could set to our > needs). SquirrelMail requires an IMAP server for authentication and > Courier-IMAP seems to be the fastest around and recommended by most groups. > > Everything worked wonderfully EXCEPT for the fact that you could only > authenticate about 3 times before getting a username/password unknown error. > If I restart the Courier authentication daemon it works for another 3 times. > I even tried setting up a cron job to run a script as root that restarts the > Courier authentication daemon every minute. > > The Courier IMAP list was the first place I searched for help but they were > adamant that the problem is with vchkpw and that I should upgrade to version > 5.3.20. I have done this but still have the same problem. > > Any suggestions? Has anyone else had this problem? > > >
