Mail question

Robert Slade bsd at bathnetworks.com
Thu Sep 15 23:36:43 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:02, Chris Petrovitch wrote:
> Alexander Bogdanov wrote:
> 
> >Hello.
> >I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix
> >mail system under FreeBSD.
> >I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail
> >account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his
> >account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so
> >he'd like to change it!
> >The question is: HOW? 
> >
> >I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
> >  
> >
> 
> I'm in the same situation....  I used /etc/passwd for people with shell 
> accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual accounts..
> 
> any insight on this would be great!

Chris,

I can't help directly, but couier-imap does have an addon courier-passd
which allows remote changing of passwords. There is an example on the
qmailrocks site:

http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/imap.htm

Rob



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