Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:14:57 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: albi <albi@scii.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: this IMAP stuff is kicking my @$$... Message-ID: <0977D2B4-675C-11D9-8352-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <41E9BE2F.3080707@scii.nl> References: <AE4D9B56-6683-11D9-8BD4-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <41E863D6.6040009@mac.com> <BFF0B072-669B-11D9-8A15-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <41E880A9.7010909@scii.nl> <72218405-66A0-11D9-8A15-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <41E9BE2F.3080707@scii.nl>
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--Apple-Mail-1-829362600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Jan 15, 2005, at 7:06 PM, albi wrote: > Eric F Crist wrote: > > hi, > >>> afair squirrelmail depends on Maildir-format mailboxes >>> >>> if you really want to use the UW-imap (i don't, i'm happily using >>> courier-imap and squirrelmail since years), then try a webmail >>> solution >>> that works with mbox-format, i think neomail and openwebmail are some >>> alternatives >> Actually, I believe squirrelmail just depends on an imap server. > > first i thought you were right, and i though i'm some years behind (i > read that squirrelmail depended on imap some years ago), maybe > squirrelmail has changed, > > i looked up the requirements on the squirrelmail-page and saw that you > were right, uw-imap is in the list of required imap-servers, however, > i just read that uw-imap can do imap, and ... > i know that converting mbox to maildir can be a lot of work, but if i > were you i would test with a mbox-based webmail-solution, or... simply > try the imap directly with a mailclient which supports imap and/or > imap-ssl > >> I don't think it cares what (imap-uw is supported). My issue resides >> with the plain-text password issue. As per instructions, I've >> recompiled imap-uw to allow plain-text, or so I thought, and I still >> get the errors. I followed these instructions: >> http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/UWLoginDisabled and I'm >> concerned with these messages in /var/log/auth.log: >> Jan 14 20:15:20 grog imapd[19134]: Login disabled user=user auth=user >> host=localhost [127.0.0.1] > > i have no idea, but i know one thing for sure, the error-message is > -not - always showing the exact error > > error-messages are limited to what the programmer(s) made it to act > like > > for example, i'm setting up a ftp-server, and in a bootup-script i had > chmod 700 /home/ and i set /home/ftp to be the ftp-server base-dir > from the log-files i could not find out that the permissions where > wrong, it simply showed login-errors, and gave time-outs > > do you get my point ? i'm trying to say that perhaps squirrelmail > still demands a maildir-based imap-server (i don't know whether that's > true, google could not give me an answer to that within a reasonable > time) > > anyway, i hope you get it working soonish! > > good luck! > > ciao, > albi Actually, I know the error is correct. Actually, I know what I need to do to fix this problem, it's just not working for me... I've posted a couple links that direct me in various ways regarding this error, but my server won't accept plain-text logins. Can't figure out how to get it to do so. thanks for your help _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson --Apple-Mail-1-829362600 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkHpwBEACgkQRAAY9knOW+ozGwCfTVfDIhjS0L9tDFQ2IJxnny7g /UYAoIytKPr5Vb092m5GdbG88u4FDB/m =xtAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1-829362600--
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