Gid file /etc/vmail/gid.domain.com is missing

squirrel mail still not working 10.0.0-R112

The original message was posted four months ago and still no response from cpanel?

bimal indicates he has found a work around but relying on this seems risky as you cannot count on the uid and gid numbers being the same.

Same problem (version 10.0.0-R112) except that for some reason, my cpanel decided to make the uid numbers and gid numbers different so I cannot just symlink them.

Squirrel mail works if you login to the acount using the cpanel account and password but if you try to login as someone+domain.tld you get authenticated but cannot actually do anything.

/var/log/messages indicates the problem is...

imapd[pid]: Gid file /etc/vmail/gid.domain.tld is missing

Yes, there are uid files and I have tried manually creating the gid files but they get clobbered by cpanel each night.

With all the cpanel systems out there, is no one using squirrelmail for user+domain.tld accounts or are just a few of us having the problem. Do those of you who have working squirrel mail systems have the gid files?

I am guessing that the simple fix is for cpanel to have /scripts/updateuserdomains create the needed gid files.

Seems simple for someone who maintains the system to modify the scripts to maintain these files in an official release. I could try to hack the files but even when I have been successful at hacking cpanel, it seems cpanel updates clobber the hacks before long so I 'd rather have an official solution.

My users want squirrelmail... help.