courier-imap

[Derek Broughton]

James Cummings wrote:

> In breezy,  I've installed courier-imap to provide a local imap
> server, and am trying to connect to it in Thunderbird.  However, it
> won't let me log in.   If I telnet to localhost 143 the server
> responds (though I don't log in) but authentication doesn't take place
> properly when I try with thunderbird.
> 
> Is this a PAM-related problem?  What do I need to change so I can just
> use my user password to login to courier-imap?

You need, iirc, courier-authdaemon (certainly more than just courier-imap,
anyway).  I just replaced courier with dovecot - smaller, fewer packages,
secure and has all the features I need.
-- 
derek