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[Adam Maloney]

There is an auth_mysql module that comes with it, it looks like you can
specify the database and table information, and the field names and
types, so it knows how to authenticate.  It does support crypted
passwords in mysql.

There is a section in the manual on setting up virtual domains/users. 
Our setup is authentication through NIS, virtual users in virtusertable
(just Sendmail here).

We have our users login as user at domain, and OWM actually expands the
login name from virtusertable.  It gives the user a list of their
possible From addresses, based on the virtuser entries for that login
(so if they have multiple addresses with the same login, they can choose
which one their e-mail comes from.)  

As far as reading from the /var/spool/virtual/DOMAIN/USER/Maildir - I'm
not sure whether OWM supports Maildir format, you'll have to check the
docs.  There is a mailspooldir configuration option.  There is also an
option to use hashed spool directories (/var/mail/a/d/adamm) which you
can probably use as a starting point for making it use your version of
the mail spool.  This is in openwebmail.pl


On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 08:44, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com> [20031103 22:16]: wrote:
> > openwebmail (openwebmail.org) - it's the swiss-army of webmails, and is
> > a port.  Got it running very painlessly, and it does pretty much
> > everything.  Haven't played with much else, but as soon as I found OWM I
> > haven't had the need to look at any of the other ones.
> 
> 
> Hello Friends,
> 
> 
> Let me take Adam on this ;)
> 
> And you by extension.
> 
> I tried openwebmail today. It was very difficult to get running under a
> virtualhost in apache. Perhaps I missed some point but even as
> we speak, I still believe something is not right with the setup.
> http://owm.wananchi.com.
> 
> The login window looks very nice, but I haven't managed to get it to
> authenticate a user at all. Why? Because I am still not sure. I think
> I will need a whole night (w/o interferences) to do that. Those who
> have used it may help me though.
> I am moving towards a complete virtual setup where all users are in
> a MySQL database. What I would like to know (which I so far doubt) is
> whether openwebmail can authenticate using encrypted passwords (md5 -
> same as those we have in master.passwd) from the DB. My setup stores
> mail in /var/spool/virtual/$domain/$user/Maildir/. Is openwebmail
> ever capable of reading the mail from this path, leave alone from
> /home/$user/Maildir ($HOME/Maildir)??
> 
> Can it accept virtual user logins (user at domains)??
> 
> Or perhaps I can use PAM, with pam_mysql??
> 
> I'd very much appreciate any pointers. The webforum for OWM is not
> the best that I have ever seen. I like Mailman-like forums, not one
> like the owm one;)
> 
> 
> -Wash
> 
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