URGENT Web_ problem

Hi,
I have a massive problem, that I hope someone can give me a quick fix for.

I have created 45 domains, they all work just fine. I have also created hundreds of email users for these various domains - they all receive mail just fine. Here is my problem.

When any user from any domain tries to check their email, they receive 'invalid username or password' from their email client.

I have spent all day trying to find out what is going on, THEN it occured to me: my clients ALL have their email program setup to check email in the form of:

[email protected] and then their password

NOW, i find this does not work BECAUSE the ISPConfig program (through Dovecot) needs web33_steve to logon with

Doing some more research, I found a few threads that show how to change ISPConfig so that this does not happen any more, but... my problem is how to CHANGE all the EXISTING users I have created. I have hundreds of users that cannot log in and there is just no way I am going to have to ring them all and tell them to change their usernames!!!

I have roundcubemail installed and they can logon there (using [email protected]) just fine. It is just Pop3 110 mail.

I see Dovecot uses /etc/passwd for it's security, so I have tried going in to this file and changing web33_steve to [email protected] - but this does not fix it. Surely, I can do something like this, or 'point' dovecot to another area?

I also checked the /etc/postfix/virtualusers file and all the addresses are in there ([email protected], web33_steve, [email protected] etc, etc).

PLEASE HELP

 

ok

Thanks Till for the reply. Well, that is sad. Given that I am using Dovecot for POP, is there any other way I can 'point' the password file to something that allows @ usernames?

Or, can I modify the '/etc/passwd' file somehow?

Is there anything at all I can do about this - I don't care if it is a very long solution (change things by hand), but the thought of having to call all my customers is very daunting.

How come I can use roundcube mail with [email protected] ok?

regards
steve

 

There's no solution.

Because RoundCube does a lookup in the ISPConfig database to map the email address to the real username. Obviously, email clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird don't do a lookup in the ISPConfig database.

 

feature request

Ok, I know when I am beaten Hope Australia does better in the World Cup !

Anyhow, Please put this in for a FEATURE REQUEST in a future edition of ISPConfig. I sure would have saved me some embarrassment!
Thanks for your answers.

regards
steve

 

You misunderstand us. This is nothing which can be implemented in current versions of ISPConfig because ISPConfig uses system users, not virtual users.

ISPConfig v3 will use virtual users which is a totally different concept. You will then be able to use email addresses as user names.

 

Date for ISPConfig v3 ?

I'have try the very good ISPConfig 2.2.3 (22.05.2006), and in one file, i agree to see :

So i ask : It's a date planned for first realease of ISPConfig v3 ?

 

No, not yet...

 

ISPConfig v.3 update

I´m going to set up my 5th server with ISPConfig next week. I see all this talk about v.3 allover, and the virtual user-system.

Q?
Will it be possible to update to v.3 from a previous version of ISPConfig and keep all (most) data?
...Or do I have to wipe the whole system information user-info, mail, dns, site... to use ISPConfig v.3?


I don´t know who you are or what you do FALKO... BUT I know you are the most appreciated person on the web.

Thanks /blicod

 

BTW... RoundCube Webmail 0.1-Beta2 released

RoundCube Webmail 0.1-Beta2 released 2006-08-06 10:55

Do we see a .pkg on this?

 

Have a look here:

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?p=36544#post36544

 

We try to do it that way, but it's still a long way to go, so I wouldn't worry about it now.