[imp] username and password mechanism

[Rich Lafferty]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:38:18PM +0500, Abid Ghufran (abidghufran@hotmail.com) wrote:
> What is the mechanism imp/horde webmail uses to access and verify username 
> and password? Does it use the username and passwords from the local machine 
> /etc/password file or some other mechanism?

It uses IMAP (or POP, but I'd strongly recommend IMAP).
 
> I have installed the webmail setup on a RedHat linux machine. I am using 
> sendmail as MTA. I do not have LDAP,IMAP or User Database at the moment. I 
> just want to test the basic operation and function of webmail.

You don't mention which version you're using; you will need to satisfy
*some* prerequisites to get it to work. In 2.2, that means a database
(or shared memory, but I'd encourage you to throw postgres or mysql on
there to test) and a POP or IMAP server. In 2.3, you don't need a database.

  -Rich

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