Koya Matsuo said:
> Hi, this is the first time I started SM, and I'm still linux newbie in
> alot
> of ways, sorry if my question may be too elementary.
>
> There are around 20 users in our dept, and each has his/her own Sun
> workstation. Emails to the users are sent to each user's imap/pop server
> deployed at his/her Sun workstation. I don't know why each user should
> have
> his own imap/pop server, because I would think it should be centralized,
> but
> that has been that way it's been. So, until now each user accesses his
> email
> from a mail client, and that email client points to his own Sun
> workstation.
That's wacked. IMHO, you're better off fixing this now and centralizing
all mail services rather than getting it cobbling something together now
and trying to administer it in the future. What if your boss tells you
they're ordering 30 more workstations? Ouch. I hear "that's the way it's
always been" a lot at my job, my general response is "yes, but that's
stupid". A few hours sweat fixing it one time means a lot less headaches
in the future. Now that I've got that off my chest, let's deal with the
issue at hand.
>
> Now, I want to setup one SM server so that all users can use the browser
> to
> point to my SM server. Because each user has his own imap/pop server, what
> I
> need for SM is the vlogin plugin, am I right? (also wanted to make sure,
> that mail_fetch won't help in this case, is that right?)
vmail is what you want. But you could also go ahead and setup one
centralized IMAP server and use mail_fetch to grab POP3 mail off the
workstations until you can fix SMTP and the user's other mail clients.
>
> I've been trying to configure the vlogin to work, and this is where I'd
> like
> some help. I wonder if anyone can tell me the baseline configuration that
> I
> need just for this scenario to work? My SM installation is complete, and I
> tested to work with just one imap server -- that is, by using conf.pl
> script
> and pointing to one imap server under the Server Settings.
>
> Now in order for SM to point to different imap servers depending on the
> username entered, I need to use users.dat to set the map, is that correct?
> And that the users need to enter their login name as
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", is that right?
>
> I've been trying but hasn't been working ("Unknown user or pw incorrect").
> Do I need any other configuration? Any input I appreciate, thanks,
Sounds like SM is trying to authenticate but with the wrong username.
Does using the full email address as the username work? You probably want
to just send the username, not the full address. Should be an option in
there for that. Your best bet is to enable full logging one of the IMAP
servers and see what Squirrelmail is trying to login as (or if it's even
talking to the IMAP server you want it to).
>
> Koya
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