This problem has been covered many many times. Check archives. Hint = --with-authvchkpw \ --without-explicitsync \ --without-authpwd \ --without-authshadow \ --without-authpam \ --without-authuserdb \ --without-authcram \ --without-authldap \ --without-authmysql \ --without-authpgsql \ --without-authdaemon \ --without-authcustom
Good luck. On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 08:33 PM, Rob Francis wrote: > 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? > >