Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-10 Thread Stefan Dengscherz
2012/5/9 Shaun : > Hi all, > > How does one allow Windows users to set their own passwords if the IMAP > server they're using is Debian?  In the past I've got them to login from > my computer via PuTTY where I've typed 'passwd user-name' and let them > type their own pass, but this isn't really sca

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-10 Thread Jochen Spieker
Shaun: > > What are the main differences between Dovecot and Courier so I can make > an informed decision about which to use? https://www.google.de/search?q=dovecot+vs+courier I don't have any experience with any other IMAP server than Dovecot. What I like about it is that it makes simple setups

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-10 Thread Shaun
On 09/05/2012 16:01, Jochen Spieker wrote: > That depends on how you authenticate IMAP users. I use Dovecot's virtual > hosting What are the main differences between Dovecot and Courier so I can make an informed decision about which to use? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-10 Thread Shaun
On 09/05/2012 18:35, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:49:10 +0100, Shaun wrote: > >> On 09/05/2012 16:39, Camaleón wrote: > Okay, so you still have no webmail application in place, right? This is correct. Currently no, though it may be a useful thing to implement for the users. > As you

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 May 2012 17:35:11 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:49:10 +0100, Shaun wrote: > > > On 09/05/2012 16:39, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> what kind of accounts/password backend you are using (system users, > >> mysql users, sasldb2 users...) :-) > > > > System users. > >

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 20:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 17:35 +, Camaleón wrote: > > http://www.courier-mta.org/sqwebmail/ > > Seems to be a dead link or the server is down. Google confirms that > there should be this address, but it I get "Server not found" here. It's

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 17:35 +, Camaleón wrote: > http://www.courier-mta.org/sqwebmail/ Seems to be a dead link or the server is down. Google confirms that there should be this address, but it I get "Server not found" here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 May 2012 16:49:10 +0100, Shaun wrote: > On 09/05/2012 16:39, Camaleón wrote: > >> what kind of accounts/password backend you are using (system users, >> mysql users, sasldb2 users...) :-) > > System users. > >> Most webmail frontends (Squirrel, Roundcube...) provide plugins for >> th

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Shaun: > > Also vacation mails are done via .procmailrc files and so this is > currently a bit messy too as the users can't do it themselves as they > don't have shell access. And setting up procmail rules. Again, would be > nice to be able to have users do this themselves. Are all these things >

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Shaun
On 09/05/2012 16:39, Camaleón wrote: > what kind of accounts/password backend you are using (system users, mysql > users, sasldb2 users...) :-) System users. > Most webmail frontends (Squirrel, Roundcube...) provide plugins for that > precisely purpose. What's your IMAP configuration? Courier

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 May 2012 15:07:57 +0100, Shaun wrote: > How does one allow Windows users to set their own passwords if the IMAP > server they're using is Debian? That would depend on the software you are using for handling IMAP and what kind of accounts/password backend you are using (system users,

Re: Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Shaun: > > How does one allow Windows users to set their own passwords if the IMAP > server they're using is Debian? That depends on how you authenticate IMAP users. I use Dovecot's virtual hosting with Postgresql plus Roundcube as web frontend. AFAIK, Roundcube has a plugin that allows users to

Allowing people to change their own IMAP password

2012-05-09 Thread Shaun
Hi all, How does one allow Windows users to set their own passwords if the IMAP server they're using is Debian? In the past I've got them to login from my computer via PuTTY where I've typed 'passwd user-name' and let them type their own pass, but this isn't really scalable as a solution. What do