-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, thanks for the replies guys
On 01/08/2010 18:17, kashani wrote: > On 8/1/2010 8:06 AM, Matt Harrison wrote: >> Just wondering if anyone has any experience with courier-imap >> serving mailboxes over >> NFS. From googling around it seems courier should support remote >> homedirs but I can't >> get it working. >> >> My user authenticates according to the logs, but the client reports >> invalid >> credentials. Remove the NFS home directory and it works again. >> >> Any help would be appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to >> install courier-imap on >> solaris, and I really don't feel like that :P >> > > I'd suspect UID/GID mismatches somewhere. Make sure the machine > delivering the email, the home dirs, and the machine running > courier-imap all see .maildir as the same user account. You may want > to put Courier-imap into verbose or debug mode as well. > I'd also look at your NFS config to see if you're doing any > squashes into other UIDs. And just for the hell of it, never use > mbox over NFS. The locking will kill you on a busy system. > > kashani > Ok, the machine that is serving the home directories never gets accessed directly by the users, the UIDs/GIDs are set on creation at the client end. The users have no problems at all using the home directory via a shell on any client machine, so I believe permissions are ok. Also, I was a bit misleading when I spoke about mailboxes, we are using Maildir. I just said mailboxes as a term to encompass the mail folders serverd by imap for each account :) I've tried to put courier-imap into debug mode (level 1) and I get what appears to be a successful authentication from pam, but the mail clients still don't like it: authdaemond: received auth request, service=imap, authtype=login authdaemond: authpam: trying this module authdaemond: authpam: sysusername=matt, sysuserid=<null>, sysgroupid=100, homedir=/home/matt, address=matt, fullname=, maildir=<null>, quota=<null>, options=<null> genesis authdaemond: pam_service=imap, pam_username=matt genesis authdaemond: dopam successful genesis authdaemond: Authenticated: sysusername=matt, sysuserid=<null>, sysgroupid=100, homedir=/home/matt address=matt, fullname=, maildir=<null>, quota=<null>, options=<null> The only difference in the logs is that an NFS user ends with the above snippet, whereas a normal user goes on to log the imap connection: imapd-ssl: LOGIN, user=matt, ip=[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx], port=[3276], protocol=IMAP On 01/08/2010 18:19, Stroller wrote: > Have you considered dovecot? > > Stroller. > I haven't, no. Not for any reason other than I hit upon courier first and I has always worked pretty well until now. Is there a large advantage to using dovecot for imap over nfs? Or were you implying that it would be easier to setup on solaris? On 01/08/2010 19:10, Alex Schuster wrote: > Are your users in more than 16 groups? NFS only manages up to 16, which > once gave me weird side effects. > > Wonko No we're not using that many groups, and just to be sure I created a test user in only one group and it still have me the problem :( Grateful for the input guys, and for any more light you can shed on this :) thanks Matt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxV/yAACgkQdG+qMRd5kKpSEACaAlXaCNCD8wizWJ2Nb0Rvtd+u NTgAoLHObEBfdk3Mbvt7EkXcAG4jSu8W =TeFA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
