Using Squirrelmail with ISPConfig 3

I wish there were some more instructions on how to use squirrelmail with ISPConfig 3.

After successfully following all the instructions for a Fedora 10 install with ISPConfig 3 and sqirrelmail using IMAP courrier, I'm a bit lost.

The issue: Can't log in to IMAP email accounts using squirrelmail

Symptoms:
1. ISPConfig 3 works fine. It creates email domains, accounts, etc. I have verified that the email accounts are being created for /var/vmail/domain/usr
2. Squirrelmail login screen comes up fine.
3. Squirrelmail configtest.php produces no errors:

Squirrelmail complains about the login stating:

"Unknown user or password incorrect."

I've tried both username and username@domain but I can't log in !

Weird!

Thanks for any help or ideas!

 

similar problem here, but I am unsure what user to use for logging in, is it the client? I guess client is only for logging into ispcfg3 itsself. which would be the username used to log into squirrelmail or any other email account?

 

Using squirrelmail with ISPConfig 3 logging in issues

Seems like it should be the username or username@domainname that is created in ISPConfig for the new IMAP account ...

 

For some reason that does not work! Anyone have any ideas?

My configuration is that I rent a server at

myaccount.mywebhostingcompany.net

The A and MX records are at ns1.mywebhostingcompany.net (etc). The MX records do point to the domains / IP addresses that I am configuring for ISPConfig and the courier IMAP server is working. It should work but I don't understand why it does not.

 

is there any way for an email user to change his password? I know in ispcfg2 there was an option. Besides tehre are quite a few squirrelmail plugins to change passwords, does anyone work with ispcfg3, I mean bearing in mind its virtual users now and no longer system users...

 

I made a plugin for Roundcube webmail for ISPConfig 3. You can find it here http://www.roundcubeforum.net/downl...config-3-password-autoreply-changer-0-2-1-19/

 

Here it is:

I have absolutely no idea what the problem is here! ??

 

Updated mail error messages

I repeated all the procedures for "12 Configure Courier" on at the bottom of:
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora-10-ispconfig-3-p4

I have also done:
# /usr/share/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl
... specifying both courier and dovecot IMAP servers.

Now I am getting the following mail error:

I am going to take a guess and say that this is an courier vs dovecot config issue, but I don't know how to solve it.

Thanks for any help!

 

Dovecot Vs Courier

Well... Not sure I want to do that because it looks like most people are moving away from courier to dovecot because it appears to be a bit more lightweight, faster, and perhaps even more reliable (although I don't know about that last one).

If I do get rid of it, there must be an easier way of doing so than starting from scratch. I already have ISPConfig 3 setup the way I want it with a number of websites working perfectly.

I don't rely on using this server for email, so I am thinking that I may just hold off until there is a solution for dovecot support in ISPConfig 3.

Yikes!

 

according to the perfect server howto for ispcfg3:

how would I have to proceed to make squirrelmail available at anyhosteddomain/webmail/ ? or alternatively at mail.anyhosteddomain.com ?

any hints?

 

The best way to do that is to put a symbolic link in the root directory for the website you want to be able to do this. For example.

ln [OPTION] TARGET LINK_NAME

# cd PathToHtmlRootOfYourDomain
# ln -s /usr/share/squirrelmail webmail

That should do it.

You might need to modify your apache configuration to allow access to files outside the website root

 

I decided to remove dovecot and switch to courier-imap after all. The following worked to solve this issue:

Code:

cd /etc/init.d
./dovecot stop
chkconfig --del dovecot
./courier-authlib start
./courier-imap start
chkconfig --levels 235 courier-imap on

Now squirrelmail works fine! Rebooting brings up all the services just fine. If anyone else has this problem, just cut and past the code above and you should be ready to go. At least it will work for Redhat systems others may have to figure out the command to use to add services to load at boot.

 

has anybody done this on centOS if yes can you please help i cant login to the mail accounts i have created in ISPConfig i am using dovecot and squirrel mail.

I f you suggest a change in any packages i will do it i just need to get my email working. Thank you