[Phpgroupware-users] Courier IMAP: How to authenticate users?

[Frederic Faure]

Hi,

As instructed, I built the RPM package from the latest and greatest Courier 
IMAP tarball, installed it, and am now trying it out before moving to 
installing Qmail.

Problem is... the INSTALL document doesn't explain what to do after running 
rpm -Uvh, ie. do I need to do anything to set up Maildirs, do I need to 
tell Courier IMAP to use /etc/shadow, etc.

Since I couldn't find what the commands are to log on with IMAP, I tried 
POP3 (trimmed a bit):

# telnet localhost pop3
+OK Hello there.
user ffaure
+OK Password required.
pass testtest
-ERR Maildir: No such file or directory
Connection closed by foreign host.

FYI, I ran "/usr/lib/courier-imap/bin/maildirmake /home/ffaure/MailDir" 
before trying the above, and left /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/authdaemonrc 
with its default of "authmodulelist="authcustom authcram authuserdb 
authldap authpam" ".

I've also tried twiching /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/imapd, to no avail:
AUTHMODULES="authdaemon"
#AUTHMODULES="authshadow"
#AUTHMODULES="authpam"

Does it mean that the RPM doesn't handle shadow files? Should I build a 
userdb instead, and if yes, how do I do this?

Thx
Fred.