From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 01:15:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F19216A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:15:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grog.secure-computing.net (grog.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4A543D41 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:15:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (c-66-41-157-209.mn.client2.attbi.com [66.41.157.209]) (authenticated bits=0)j0G1EW7e022183; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:14:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) In-Reply-To: <41E9BE2F.3080707@scii.nl> References: <41E863D6.6040009@mac.com> <41E880A9.7010909@scii.nl> <72218405-66A0-11D9-8A15-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <41E9BE2F.3080707@scii.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-1-829362600" Message-Id: <0977D2B4-675C-11D9-8352-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric F Crist Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 19:14:57 -0600 To: albi X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on grog.secure-computing.net cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: this IMAP stuff is kicking my @$$... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 01:15:19 -0000 --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--