[TriLUG] change passwd on remote mail server?

[Jon Carnes]

I've used cgipaf at a lot of sites.  It works great and is easy to mod.
  http://freshmeat.net/projects/cgipaf/?topic_id=28

Jon Carnes

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 12:05, Mark Kempster wrote:
> The situation at hand:
> 
> (1) box 1: debian stable running UW imap and postfix.
>    Mail to me lives here; mail to others gets bounced.
>    I'm the only one (at present) with a local account.
> 
> (2) box 2: debian testing (with some packages from unstable)
>    running squirrelmail / apache 1.3 on port 8080.
>    apache2 (and subversion, dav, etc.) running on port 80.
> 
> (3) both machines are behind a linksys, which forwards
>    port 25 to the mail machine (143/993 not open to the
>    world yet); other ports (80, 23, etc.) forwarded to
>    the web machine.
> 
> The problem:
> Is there a way to let users manage their own passwords on
> the mail machine without giving them ssh access to it?
> Ideally I'd like to do this via squirrelmail, or some
> other mechanism on the (remote) web server.
> 
> 
> 
> There are a handful of squirrelmail password plugins, but
> they seem to all want the web and mail server on the same
> machine (which isn't out of the realm of possibility; I'm
> just hoping to not have to babysit another apache instance).
> 
> 
> Are there web-based non-mail-related packages to do this?
> Should I be looking to swap IMAP packages? I'm not wed
> to UW, but Cyrus seems to the the only other package.
> Is it any better?
> 
> Google isn't helping much. I assume there's a TFM
> out there that I should R, but I haven't found it yet.
> Any pointers are appreciated.
> 
> TIA
> - mark
> 
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