Bug 105943

Summary: squirrelmail's README.SuSE is outdated
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: peter czanik <peter>
Component: NetworkAssignee: Marian Jancar <mjancar>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 2   
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Description peter czanik 2005-08-19 20:53:51 UTC 
The README.SuSE for squirrelmail seems to be outdated:
"
This packet is configured to use the University of Washington imap server.
Please uncommet the line which configures the imapd in /etc/inetd.conf.
"
First of all, there is already no /etc/inetd.conf (but /etc/xinetd.d/imap ), and
even with these, the provided config does not work, as when trying to ligin, the
following error page is displayed:

"Bad request: The IMAP server is reporting that plain text logins are disabled.
Using CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication instead may work. Also, the use of
TLS may allow SquirrelMail to login. Please contact your system administrator
and report this error."

So, I contact myself, and check, if I can change the config to use something
acceptable by imap :)
Comment 1 peter czanik 2005-08-19 21:20:46 UTC 
The working solution for me was to enable "imaps" in xinetd, and then change
squirrelmail configuration in the following way:

IMAP Settings
--------------
4.  IMAP Server            : localhost
5.  IMAP Port              : 993
6.  Authentication type    : login
7.  Secure IMAP (TLS)      : true
8.  Server software        : uw
9.  Delimiter              : /
Comment 2 Marian Jancar 2005-08-24 19:26:41 UTC 
The nonssl variant doesn't work at all (uw imap has login auth disabled and
squirrelmail doesn't support plain), the ssl works only with php5. I will test
whether courier or cyrus work better and change the default config and the
readme if so.
Comment 3 Marian Jancar 2005-08-24 19:32:43 UTC 
Err, I meant the nonssl works only with php4.
Comment 4 peter czanik 2005-08-28 09:04:11 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> whether courier or cyrus work better and change the default config and the

But those are much more difficult to configure. So imap-uw should be left as
default. And nobody should use unencrypted imap anyway...
Comment 5 Marian Jancar 2005-08-28 11:26:44 UTC 
To use uw imap with ssl you need to generate the certificate, it doesn't work
with php5, and on localhost nonssl makes more sense.
Comment 6 peter czanik 2005-08-28 11:53:34 UTC 
I used php5 (as mod_php4 was not included), and worked fine...
Comment 7 Marian Jancar 2005-09-01 08:52:54 UTC 
The courier works with default configuration, the only thing the users has to do
is to create the maildir in his home, and is by far superior to the uw.
Comment 8 Marian Jancar 2005-09-01 09:49:44 UTC 
But postfix delivers to mailbox by default, oh well.
Comment 9 Marian Jancar 2005-09-01 12:50:17 UTC 
fixed