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Hi,
I'm having a little trouble setting up imap authentication.
I'm planning to replace a horde based system with ox and need a simple way of registering all my existing users with ox.
I thought that using the imap-auth plugin in place of db-auth would do this for me, but it is not behaving as I would expect.
If I create a user in ox that matches an existing valid imap account and use a dummy password, the user can login but has no access to email I (icon greyed out). If I create an ox account in the same way but use the genuine imap password, email is functional.
I clearly don't understand how this is supposed to work. Since I do not know user passwords it is not possible for me create the ox accounts en masse. It does seem a little strange that if the ox server is authenticating via imap that it tehn fails to access the imap mailboxes (possibly because it is using the dummy password?).
To be honest, I hoped that it may be possible for users accounts to be automatically created if authentication is sucessful - other webmail systems do this.
Anyone else sing imap auth successfully?
Did you do it by importing exiting users details?
Is there a config change that i need to make apart from specifying my imap server in /opt/open-xchange/etc/groupware/imapauth.properties ?
Are there a special flags I need for
/opt/open-xchange/sbin/createuser ?
There is some talk about it at
http://www.open-xchange.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3015 - but my German is 0 and Babel translation is vague.
I really like the look of OX and would like to use it in place of the alternatives. If user management is going to be a pain, I'm not sure this is the way for me to go, so any help would be very much appreciated.
Cheers.
I'm having a little trouble setting up imap authentication.
I'm planning to replace a horde based system with ox and need a simple way of registering all my existing users with ox.
I thought that using the imap-auth plugin in place of db-auth would do this for me, but it is not behaving as I would expect.
If I create a user in ox that matches an existing valid imap account and use a dummy password, the user can login but has no access to email I (icon greyed out). If I create an ox account in the same way but use the genuine imap password, email is functional.
I clearly don't understand how this is supposed to work. Since I do not know user passwords it is not possible for me create the ox accounts en masse. It does seem a little strange that if the ox server is authenticating via imap that it tehn fails to access the imap mailboxes (possibly because it is using the dummy password?).
To be honest, I hoped that it may be possible for users accounts to be automatically created if authentication is sucessful - other webmail systems do this.
Anyone else sing imap auth successfully?
Did you do it by importing exiting users details?
Is there a config change that i need to make apart from specifying my imap server in /opt/open-xchange/etc/groupware/imapauth.properties ?
Are there a special flags I need for
/opt/open-xchange/sbin/createuser ?
There is some talk about it at
http://www.open-xchange.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3015 - but my German is 0 and Babel translation is vague.
I really like the look of OX and would like to use it in place of the alternatives. If user management is going to be a pain, I'm not sure this is the way for me to go, so any help would be very much appreciated.
Cheers.
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