ABOUT ETC/*CONF and ETC/DEFAULTS/*CONF Some of them are for openwebmail system and otheres are for openwebmail modules. defaults/openwebmail.conf, openwebmail.conf, sites.conf/*, users.conf/*, smtpauth.conf ------------------------------------------------------------- The openwebmail system will try to load conf file in the following order 1. defaults/openwebmail.conf 2. openwebmail.conf 3. smtpauth.conf (username/password to pass smtp authentication) 3. sites.conf/sitename (site specific config file) 4. users.conf/username (user specific config file) While defaults/openwebmail.conf is a complete list of openwebmail system options, the openwebmail.conf may contain only the options that override the ones in defaults/openwebmail.conf If your openwebmail is running in persistent mode, defaults/openwebmail.conf will be loaded for only once, but other conf file will be reloaded by openwebmail if they have been changed. defaults/auth_*.conf, defaults/dbm.conf, defaults/filelock.conf, defaults/suid.conf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Other defaults/*.conf files contain default setting for openwebmail modules, you may write your own *.conf to replace the defaults/*.conf The module will try to load *.conf instead of defaults/*.conf if *.conf exist. For example. the defaults/auth_unix.conf is config file for auth/auth_unix.pl, you may copy it to auth_unix.conf and modify it for yourr need. Your auth_unix.conf must contains all options from defaults/auth_unix.conf, as openwebmail won't load defaults/auth_unix.conf if auth_unix.conf is found. If your openwebmail is running in persistent mode, all modules will be loaded for only once, so your modification to auth_*.conf ,dbm.conf or filelock.conf won't been seen by openwebmail modules if openwebmail has been loaded in memory. A simple solution for this is running 'touch openwebmail*pl' to update the timestamp of openwebmail scripts, so the speedycgi backend will reload the script from disk again, then the modified conf will be read at that time.