I have recently built an egroupware system to be used as a social networking site. The application suite itself is relatively easy to install and configure, but the webmail system it offers (a fork of squirrelmail called felamimail) is rather poorly documented. It took me some time to figure out how to authenticate mail users in IMAP against the egroupware (mysql) database – largely because the documentation doesn’t go into details about the database structure, but also because it doesn’t give any help with choosing or configuring an IMAP server to go with it.
Hence this post. I have documented how I configured the necessary components here.
Enjoy.