On October 16, 2007 06:35 am Steve Moyes wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 12:44 -0700, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > > Separate from exactly what? Not meaning to offend, but my guess is > > that you may not understand the concept of how SM authenticates > > and/or what a "mail account" is. SM can care less about what kind of > > account the user has; SM merely takes the credentials you give it and > > uses them to ask the IMAP server if the user is authenticated or not. > > That's it. There is only one set of credentials. The fact that SM > > asks the IMAP server means that you can put SM and the IMAP server in > > two completely different hemispheres and it does not matter. The > > user credentials would still be the SAME, not "separate". > > OK.. this is the deal. I've been asked to provide a front end to our > email system. So.. I have the mail server which has unix user accounts > with Maildir. And I have a separate box which will be the SM server > viewable to the internet. It has been requested that NO users have > access to their actual login details and that the mail server remains > on the internal network only for security precautions. Think of it this way: how would you make this work if you were using Outlook or Thunderbird instead of Squirrelmail? What you are being asked to do is not possible. Squirrelmail is an e-mail client, same as Outlook, same as Thunderbird. Just because it runs in a web browser does not make it work any different. The e-mail client doesn't have separate user credentials from the e-mail server. All the e-mail client does is send the username/password to the e-mail server. -- Freddie Cash, LPIC-2 CCNT CCLP Network Support Technician School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash-ml@xxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
