I installed Courier from ports on FreeBSD 4.6 Stable and then followed the instructions to test the installation, but ran into severe difficulties that I hope can be resolved with some gentle hints:

1) I configured PAM as shown 2) Authdaemond starts ok but I'm confused why 'authpwd' is not shown in the authdeamondrc file as a valid authentication module. 3) The 'verify module installation' step tests ok 4) TROUBLE: In 'test child process termination' it says 'configure Courier for local account authentication', but sadly leaves out how to do this. Since I have PAM configured per guideline I was hoping that would suffice and gloss over the 'authpwd' confusion. Still, how? 5) TROUBLE: after 'courier start' there is only one lonely courierd process, and maillog shows the following:

Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Loading STATIC transport module libraries. Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Courier 0.39.1 Copyright 1999-2002 Double Precision, Inc. Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installing [0/0] Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installing local Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installed: module.local - Courier 0.39.1 Copyright 1999-2002 Double Precision, Inc. Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installing esmtp Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installed: module.esmtp - Courier 0.39.1 Copyright 1999-2002 Double Precision, Inc. Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installing dsn Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installed: module.dsn - Courier 0.39.1 Copyright 1999-2002 Double Precision, Inc. Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installing uucp Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installed: module.uucp - Courier 0.39.1 Copyright 1999-2002 Double Precision, Inc. Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installing fax Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Installed: module.fax - Courier 0.39.1 Copyright 1999-2002 Double Precision, Inc. Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Initializing local Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Initializing esmtp Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Initializing dsn Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Initializing uucp Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Initializing fax Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Started ./courierlocal, pid=81138, maxdels=10, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1 Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Started ./courieresmtp, pid=81140, maxdels=40, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=100 Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Started ./courierdsn, pid=81142, maxdels=4, maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1 Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Started ./courieruucp, pid=81144, maxdels=4, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=16 Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Started ./courierfax, pid=81146, maxdels=1, maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1 Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: queuelo=200, queuehi=400 Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgq Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgs Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Permission denied Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: ABNORMAL TERMINATION, exit status: 1 Jul 31 22:14:56 mybox courierd: Will restart in 60 seconds.

The 'permission denied' error clearly kills the whole startup process but it unfortunately insufficient: what permission was denied, and more importantly, to what? All of /var/spool/ is owned by courier/courier so I did not see a problem there, and the install documentation is leaving out any kind of troubleshooting advice.

I searched the mailing list but found no mention of these issues. If anybody knows what the problem is please share it!

Cheers, Caro