qmail vpopmail spamassassin and squirrelmail plugins

[sabrex]

I have a working email server with the following:

qmail
qmail-scanner
vpopmail
courier-imap (for imap4 and pop3)
spamassassin (+razor2 +pyzor)
clamav
squirrelmail

Everything works fine, and incoming mail is scanned for both viruses and spam. However, I would like to allow squirrelmail users to do two things:

1. change their password using a plugin
2. change their spamassassin settings

I have tried everything I can think of, but have not been able to accomplish the above. With the first goal, my problem is that the squirrelmail plugins don't seem to understand the encryption system vpopmail uses. It isn't mysql, crypt, or md5 as far as I've gathered. Are there any squirrelmail plugins that work with vpopmail?

With the second problem, I installed the spamassassin plugin for squirrelmail, and users can certainly change settings (modify threshold, change spam tag, etc) but unfortunatley those settings don't take effect. The plugin places a user@domain.com.spam in the $quirrelmail/data directory for each user that changes settings. but those settings are not used by spamassassin. while digging around, I noticed by running 'man spamd' that spamassassin does seem to have support for vpopmail (using the -v option). However, that settings doesn't actually seem to do anything. Anybody know of any way of letting uses change their spamassassin preferences via squirrelmail?

Thanks

[sabrex]

I managed to solve my first problem. Users can now change their password using the squirrelmail plugin called "VPOPMail Account Administration." I had to make sure apache2 was running as vpopmail:vpopmail, which raises some security concerns, but I guess it's the best I can do at the moment.

The vpopmail account administration plugin is located at http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=103

Now I just need to figure out how to let users change their spamassassin preferences using a squirrelmail plugin on vpopmail/qmail.

[Naspe]

About your first problem... why don't u let users to use qmailadmin? This way u can solve the security problem of running apache with vpopmail user...

Now i'd like to make a question

I followed your guide to set up qmail-spamassasin-clamAV-razor-pryzor... and all seems to work. The only problem is that i didn't know what i have to do after the setup to configure razor, pryzor, dcc and spamassasin...
I mean i followed all the steps in your guide. Than? What to do to setup antispam rules?
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[astano]

About your first problem (change password):

you can use the squirrelmail plugin change_mysqlpass

Just be sure to configure the encryption to UNIX encription (if I´m not wrong it´s the default for the plugin), chenge the mysql tables and fields according and set the multiple database field setup according...

[pachanga]