Qmail behind Postfix on debian etch #3 (Squirrelmail)

In this session we will write step by step installing squirrelmail web interface on debian, you need compiling courier-imap from source in debian cause in debian package courier-imap configure without vchkpw authentication support. This is my step by step (i got from )

imap server

# mkdir -p /usr/src/deb-source; cd  /usr/src/deb-source

# apt-get install dpkg-dev

# apt-get source courier-authlib

# apt-get build-dep courier-authlib

# cd courier-authlib-0.58/debian

# vim control

Package: courier-authlib-vchkpw 

Architecture: any 

Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, courier-authlib (>= ${RELUP}) 

Description: External authentication support for Vpopmail. 

  This package contains vpopmail support for courier-authlib.

# echo "/usr/lib/courier-authlib/libauthvchkpw.so*" > courier-authlib-vchkpw.files

# vim rules change 

--without-authvchkpw to --with-authvchkpw

# cd ..

# dpkg -i courier-authlib_0.58-4_i386.deb

# dpkg -i courier-authlib-vchkpw_0.58-4_i386.deb

# apt-get install courier-imap

# vim /etc/courier/authdaemonrc change 

authmodulelist="authpam" to authmodulelist="authvchkpw" and 

authmodulelistorig="authuserdb authpam authpgsql authldap authmysql authcustom authvchkpw authpipe"

 to 

authmodulelist="authvchkpw"

# /etc/init.d/courier-imap stop

# /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon stop

# /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon start

# /ect/init.d/courier-imap start

# telnet localhost 143

Trying 127.0.0.1...

Connected to localhost.

Escape character is '^]'.

* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2005 Double Precision, Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.

0 login postmaster@yourdomain.com your_password

0 OK LOGIN Ok.

0 logout

Squirrelmail

# apt-get install squirrelmail

# ln -s /usr/share/squirrelmail/ /var/www/mail

now try to access http://yourdmain/mail, and try to login with postmaster@yourdomain.com. I hope is no problem there, because i haven't.  Now we will to install squirrelmail change password plugin, you can download this plugin in here and 

# tar zxvf change_pass-2.7a-1.4.x.tar.gz -C /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins/

# cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/

# config/conf.pl

konfigure your plugin

# apt-get install courierpassd -> you will need this for change password via squirrelmail

# vim /etc/inetd.conf add this line

poppassd        stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/courierpassd  poppassd

#  ps ax|grep -i inetd

 2258 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd

13338 pts/0    R+     0:00 grep -i inetd

# kill -HUP 2258

# netstat -an |grep LISTEN |grep 106

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:106             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

and try again to change your password via squirrelmail, now should be ok. For testing, logout from squirrelmail and login with your password.

thx