Qmailrocks, Courier IMAP and Debian Etch

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Qmailrocks, Courier IMAP and Debian Etch

I took the plunge today and upgraded my server to Debian Etch. All went pretty well, except that theQmailrocks mail setup was broken.

After a bit of fiddling about (recompiling qmail mostly), it seemed to be up and running, except that I can't log in via IMAP. Strange...

It turns out that the standard Courier-IMAP package in Etch has authentication against a password file (authvchkpw method) disabled.

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necr0man6er (not verified) wrote on Fri, 2007-05-04 18:29

you should compile

you should compile courier-authlib package from source en add symbolic links from /usr/local/lib/courier-authlib to /usr/lib/courier-authlib.

The problem i have is that libc6 gives me troubles for starting qmail

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martin wrote on Mon, 2007-05-07 09:40

The hassle in getting the previous setup back up and running was just way too much. So what I've done (with thanks to Indigospring for cleaning out a severely broken Courier install) is moved to standard Debian-packaged Postfix and Courier.

That way, the next time there's a major Deb upgrade, it won't break stuff (just about everything else on the server is properly Debian-maintained already).

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Andy (not verified) wrote on Tue, 2007-06-12 17:37

This a one solution for Debian Etch.

Install a Debian Etch Stable (r4.0) with qmail + vpopmail + courier-imap

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Syngin (not verified) wrote on Tue, 2007-07-17 12:19

Etch and Qmailrocks

You have a point about not breaking stuff when there's an upgrade.

For the time being at least I've created a list of Etch specific additions for the QMR install (until v3 is released for Debian at least):

HowTo

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