courier webadmin setup

rtwick · Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 4:28 am Post subject: courier webadmin setup

Hi all,
just trying to buildup a box with gentoo. I have installed the courier mta package and i would like ot use the webadmin feature of courier but can not figure out anyway how to setup the webadmin passwd.

earlier I used to compile courier from scratch but there was a make web-admin-password or something like that which was creating the password but now I can not find that rule in the source tarball.

any idea?

R'twick

btg308 · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 11:48 am Post subject: make install-webadmin-password

Found it in the main Courier Makefile.in in the 0.39.3 tarball (not the one in the webadmin subdir, mind you)

mooman · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 5:59 am Post subject:

I dunno if the original poster ran into this, but I found lots of posts around the net about people who couldn't get the webadmin password to work, and no answers! So after extensive trial and error and some perl hacking, i solved it (at least for me) and wanted to document the results in case anyone else had problems:

As the original poster points out, the courier instructions want you to execute a make command to create the password, something that isn't an option for us emergers.

The password.dist file gives you most of the steps you need to manually create that file:

Scytale · Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject: Solved mooman's chown problem

hachre · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 12:43 am Post subject:

i still don't get this running...
the earlier posts helped but everytime i press save in the webadmin menu it can't access the files to write them

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jkliff · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 3:18 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Altough this thread seems a little old, I'm having the exact same problema on a 0.43.1 Courier install. I saw rtwicks thread on courier-users, but that didn't seem to clarify the problem to me.
Any of you have had any success with this subject?
Any halp is appreciated.

Thanks

hachre · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:16 pm Post subject:

i'm still unable to use the web mail feature...

im using squirrelmail instead..
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jkliff · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 6:01 pm Post subject:

I sort of managed to have webadmin running (working on webmail right now -- although I consider squirrelmail for webmail), as I *really* needed it for configuration right now. Anyway, I only got it working without ssl support. I'll be working on this as soon as possible.
After all, it seems to be pretty straight forward:

1. Copy /usr/lib/courier/courier/webmail/webadmin to /home/httpd/cgi-bin/, preserving the attributes

meulie · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject:

Hmm, I get the following if I do this:

henniez-swisswater · n00b Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 16

hi there

here is what i did.

1) cp -p /usr/lib/courier/courier/webmail/webadmin /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/
2) I configuered apache to use ssl (used the postfix howto http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml)
3) changed the /etc/courier/webadmin/password file
4) chown mail:mail /etc/courier/webadmin/password
5) chmod 400 /etc/courier/webadmin/password

and that's it

hope it will work for you as well