[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl necessary with localhost webmail?

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl necessary with localhost webmail?

[Grant]

I recently switched from Thunderbird to Roundcube (highly
recommended), switched to the non-SSL courier daemon, and plugged the
firewall hole since courier resides on the same system as my web
server.  Do I still need cyrus-sasl or will a webmail client
authenticate directly with courier?

I have authmodulelist="authshadow" in /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc.

- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-sasl necessary with localhost webmail?

[Grant]

> I recently switched from Thunderbird to Roundcube (highly
> recommended), switched to the non-SSL courier daemon, and plugged the
> firewall hole since courier resides on the same system as my web
> server.  Do I still need cyrus-sasl or will a webmail client
> authenticate directly with courier?
>
> I have authmodulelist="authshadow" in /etc/courier/authlib/authdaemonrc.
>
> - Grant

Can anyone tell me if it's necessary to run cyrus-sasl between courier
and a webmail client if they're on the same machine?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl necessary with localhost webmail?

[Stroller]

On 28 March 2013, at 21:53, Grant wrote:

>> I recently switched from Thunderbird to Roundcube (highly
>> recommended), switched to the non-SSL courier daemon, and plugged the
>> firewall hole since courier resides on the same system as my web
>> server.  Do I still need cyrus-sasl or will a webmail client
>> authenticate directly with courier?
> 
> Can anyone tell me if it's necessary to run cyrus-sasl between courier
> and a webmail client if they're on the same machine?

I have a very old installation of net-mail/courier-imap 

I don't believe I have ever run cyrus-sasl on it. I have accessed this system via Squirrelmail, IMAP and (I think) IMAP-over-SSL.

I find now that I have net-libs/courier-authlib installed.

Things may have changed considerably since I installed this system, a long time ago, but there used to be two separate packages net-mail/courier-imap and mail-mta/courier. I think courier-imap was just the IMAP server, split off from the larger mail-mta/courier, which was the full package from upstream and which included some other stuff.

Last time I looked at this, dovecot seemed superior to courier, and worked very well for me when I installed it for someone else. I was able to configure it with PAM, to authenticate via Samba from a windows domain controller. I remember the developer of dovecot as really helpful - I think I had a problem and he produced a patch which fixed it within 24 hours.

I have it in mind to replace courier with dovecot when I get around to replacing my current mail server.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl necessary with localhost webmail?

[Grant]

>>> I recently switched from Thunderbird to Roundcube (highly
>>> recommended), switched to the non-SSL courier daemon, and plugged the
>>> firewall hole since courier resides on the same system as my web
>>> server.  Do I still need cyrus-sasl or will a webmail client
>>> authenticate directly with courier?
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if it's necessary to run cyrus-sasl between courier
>> and a webmail client if they're on the same machine?
>
> I have a very old installation of net-mail/courier-imap
>
> I don't believe I have ever run cyrus-sasl on it. I have accessed this system via Squirrelmail, IMAP and (I think) IMAP-over-SSL.

Thanks Stroller.  Do you run postfix or another MTA on that system?
I'm wondering if I might need cyrus-sasl for postfix instead of
courier.

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl necessary with localhost webmail?

[Stroller]

On 29 March 2013, at 20:05, Grant wrote:
>> ...
>> I have a very old installation of net-mail/courier-imap
>> 
>> I don't believe I have ever run cyrus-sasl on it. I have accessed this system via Squirrelmail, IMAP and (I think) IMAP-over-SSL.
> 
> Thanks Stroller.  Do you run postfix or another MTA on that system?
> I'm wondering if I might need cyrus-sasl for postfix instead of
> courier.

I do indeed run Postfix on it. 

Stroller.