Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail

Re: Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS)

First Off, I wish to thank falko for some wonderful How-To's, they have really saved me a lot of time.

I recently built a mail server and it is working well (the Virtual mail server for Ubuntu 7.10), but there is no user password change facility (without me coding one). When I recently needed to re-build another mail server, I used this how-to and included squirrelmail for the PW change ability. My issue is that SM gives me a blank page after I login. Using IMAP I see the welcome email, so there should be something to display.

In looking around the SM site, and they have asserted that this is typically a problem with the PHP package. I investigated my setup, and noticed that php -v gives me "PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Jul 23 2008 06:44:49)", and the How-To was released on 2008-05-20. I suspect there might be a problem with the updated PHP package, but being only a part time admin, my knowledge is sorely lacking.

Can anyone with a working setup tell me the versions they are running from the how-to? I will try syncing my packages with a working install first, making sure there are not any package version issues before I get any deeper into troubleshooting this issue.

Thanks in advance...

 

php version

Hi, I got it working, here is my php -v output

PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Jul 23 2008 06:46:18)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies

 

I would recommend you to redo the SM part of the tutorial...

Normally a blank page is because there is a typo somewhere in the PHP files.

The only modification of php in the tutorial is

/usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins/change_sqlpass/config.php

Here is the file without comments :

############################
<?php

/**
* SquirrelMail Change SQL Password Plugin
* Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Tyler Akins
* 2002 Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]>
* 2002-2005 Paul Lesneiwski <[email protected]>
* This program is licensed under GPL. See COPYING for details
*
* @package plugins
* @subpackage Change SQL Password
*
*/


// Global Variables, don't touch these unless you want to break the plugin
//
global $csp_dsn, $password_update_queries, $lookup_password_query,
$force_change_password_check_query, $password_encryption,
$csp_salt_query, $csp_salt_static, $csp_secure_port,
$csp_non_standard_http_port, $csp_delimiter, $csp_debug,
$min_password_length, $max_password_length, $include_digit_in_password,
$include_uppercase_letter_in_password, $include_lowercase_letter_in_password,
$include_nonalphanumeric_in_password;

$csp_dsn = 'mysql://mail_admin:mail_admin_password@localhost/mail';

$lookup_password_query = 'SELECT count(*) FROM users WHERE email = "%1" AND password = %4';

$password_update_queries = array('UPDATE users SET password = %4 WHERE email = "%1"');

$force_change_password_check_query = '';

$password_encryption = 'MYSQLENCRYPT';

$csp_salt_static = 'LEFT(password, 2)';

$csp_secure_port = 0;

$csp_non_standard_http_port = 0;

$min_password_length = 6;
$max_password_length = 0;
$include_digit_in_password = 0;
$include_uppercase_letter_in_password = 0;
$include_lowercase_letter_in_password = 0;
$include_nonalphanumeric_in_password = 0;

$csp_delimiter = '@';

$csp_debug = 0;

?>
#####################################

 

Thank you for the response marchost...you nailed the problem!

I decided to review the config.php file for errors first, and I found an extra _'_ in the line
$csp_salt_static = 'LEFT(password, 2)';

After I fixed that, squirrelmail now displays properly...Thanks again!