[TriLUG] squirrelmail question

[Jason Tower]

i'm willing to bet that the problem is that the mailbox doesn't exist.  
send a test message to that account, verify (in the logs) that it was 
delivered, then try again.

jason

On Monday 17 January 2005 14:50, Greg Brown wrote:
> Here is the situation:  I can create users via useradd but these
> users cannot access squirrelmail.  I am tearing through log files,
> etc, but can't find any obvious errors.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Greg
>
> On Jan 17, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> > On Mon, January 17, 2005 2:24 pm, Greg Brown said:
> >> I have been asked by a local company to take a peek at a
> >> squirrelmail/postfix system.  I have set up postfix before but not
> >> squirrelmail.  I understand that squirrelmail rides on top of
> >> imap. If
> >> I add a new user to the box in the normal fashion, useradd, how do
> >> I get that new user able to use squirrelmail?
> >>
> >> ....back to google.
> >>
> >> Greg
> >
> > There is no user setup required for squirrellmail, unless you want
> > to force certain squirellmail prefrerences(should be done at time
> > of sm install).  But that really doesn't have anything to do with
> > IMAP.  In most cases just creating the user should allow them to
> > use squirrelmail, assuming the imap server is working.  If they
> > don't need shell access, then, that is fine as well as long as they
> > have a place to store their mail like /home/user  or wherever imap
> > is configured to put their mail.
> >
> >
> > Matt Pusateri
> >
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