On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Bob Wooden <bobwdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > See comments below. > > Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Bob Wooden <bobwdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> My software install was done following "How to setup a mail server on a >>> GNU/Linux system" written by Ivar Abrahamson over at flurdy.com. I am >>> sure everyone on this list is familiar, as I see some references to it >>> in the archives. >>> >> >> No, never heard of it. Please provide a full link next time: >> >> http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html >> > ah, sorry. >> >>> May problem is I cannot login to the "Squirrelmail login homepage." I >>> can successfully ssh into this machine. I can access the "phpmyadmin >>> home page." On this phpmyadmin login, my user and password work. >>> >>> When I try to login to Squirrelmail, I get a "ERROR: Connection dropped >>> by IMAP server." >>> >>> Tailing the mail.info (log) I see "[date] [time] [myservername] >>> authdaemond: failed to connect to mysql server (server=localhost, >>> user=admin): Access denied for user 'admin@localhost' (using password: YES)" >>> >>> My mysql.log shows "...Access denied for user 'admin@localhost' (using >>> password: YES)" >>> >>> I have reviewed my setup and confirmed that I never setup >>> admin@localhost and that admin user does not exist on my system. So, I >>> have been trying (with no luck) to find out why authdaemond is asking to >>> connect via admin@localhost? >>> >> >> "admin" should be a user in MySQL, not on the local system. Find the >> Courier Authlib "authdaemonrc" configuration file and change the >> username is uses to log in to MySQL to whatever username you have set >> up for that purpose. Again, we're talking MySQL users, not local >> ones. >> > On your advice, I went to this file and discovered some typos and > corrected them. > > Now, I am getting a "ERROR Unknown user or password incorrect." And a > link back to the login page. > > The mail.info file show activity that "imapd-ssl: LOGIN FAILED, > user=[tried several existing users] ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] 9which looks > like an ipv6 address to me) > And 5 seconds later the next line is "imapd-ssl: LOGOUT, > ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1], rcvd=45, sent=334 > > The mysql.log shows "Query SELECT id, crypt, "", uid, gid, home, "", > "" " > Then after about 2 minutes "Quit" >> >>> I have may years experience with Linux and a couple years experience >>> with Ubuntu. And yet, I am a newbie in the software area of mail >>> servers. This is my first attempt, so, I may have made a stupid mistake, >>> somewhere. So, I apologize for my newness up front, but I have to start >>> somewhere. >>> >>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > So, I still cannot login into Squirrelmail. Again, any help would be > greatly appreciated. You do realize that this has absolutely nothing to do with SM, right? You still have not configured your IMAP system, and SM is merely an IMAP client. You could increase Courier IMAP's logging verbosity to help, but the fact that you found the broken SQL query should already be enough to point you in the right direction -- the query is built from authmysqlrc. You should already know this and have reviewed that file. This page in that HOWTO explains it: http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/edition5.html#conf_imap ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
