Bugzilla – Bug 105943
squirrelmail's README.SuSE is outdated
Last modified: 2005-09-01 12:50:17 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The README.SuSE for squirrelmail seems to be outdated: " This packet is configured to use the University of Washington imap server.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 :)
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 : /
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.
Err, I meant the nonssl works only with php4.
(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...
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.
I used php5 (as mod_php4 was not included), and worked fine...
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.
But postfix delivers to mailbox by default, oh well.
fixed