Re: [SM-USERS] Password changing on its own? Is this possible?

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

On 8/23/06, John Glynn <jo...@le...> wrote:
> Thanks Paul, I apologize for the html formatting. I will be sure not do that
> again.

No problem, however, this time you removed the previous message.
Please reply in-context so no one forgets what we are talking about.

> I only mentioned the specific email addresses to point out that they both
> rely on info as the name for the email address, thinking it may be relevant,
> trying not to leave out anything in my ongoing ignorance as to what
> happened.

Fair enough.  You wrote:

> I have had this happen twice  now.  The email addresses are info@rapaleetaxidermy and
> in...@ou...  The  login usernames for these are info_rt and info_ozs
> respectively.  On  the same day they both reported not being able to check their  info

So the login username that you give to SquirrelMail (and thus to IMAP)
is "info_rt", which is different than "info_ozs", so there should not
be any confusion with accounts as far as SM is concerned.  The mapping
appears to be just a MTA thing from what I can tell from your
description.  I would personally recommend a system where they can
actually use their full and real email addrses to log in, but that's
OT.

> My concern was not that my SquirrelMail was suddenly behaving as a sentient
> being (LOL) and making decisions on its own and thus changing passwords on

There is a mind-reader plugin under development currently by some of
the SM developers, and I think that once that one is done, we'll be
well under way with a sentience package.  The first rather primative
functionalities of that package will have servers all over the world
seeking out nuts for consumption.

> its own.  My concern is that maybe I have done something wrong in
> configuring the address mappings (allowing both domains to use 'info' as
> their account name without confusion) which may have caused the passwords to
> fail.

Look at your IMAP logs when they log in -- the username as IMAP knows
it is probably "info_xx", thus they are quite distinct.

 -paul


> Anyone else have an issue like this?
>
> Thanks again for the quick and helpful response.
>
> Mail server: IMAP -  dovecot
> PHP - 4.3.11
> Web server - Apache  2.0.53
> This is a stock installation of Redhat Fedora Core 3, which uses  RPM.
> Squirrelmail version: 1.4.6
> Web server:  Raid 5 windows 2003
>
> John Glynn