[imp] Problem logging in with IMAP

Yevgeniy Miretskiy eugene@invision.net
Thu, 10 May 2001 07:36:34 -0400


On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:31:29PM +0100, Rodrigo Borges Pereira wrote:
> yes i really think they are. This isn't my first time. However.. i have some
> new information that makes me think this is more an imap problem than an IMP
> problem. I found that i can login fine to courier-imap if i use virtual
> domains, in which case i login as someone@vdomain.com. If i try to login
> normally like a shell account user, it fails. So.. guess it ain't imp's
> fault. I already requested help on vmailmgr's list, but if anyone here had
> this kind of trouble and worked it out, please, let me know asap. Thanks.
> 
I could be wrong here, but I think vmailmgr auth module authenticates virtual users
only -- that is it does not work with /etc/passwd for it's authentication -- hence
your shell users can't login.

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