Probably it has been a permissions problem - even though i cannot remember that I changed them..
Anyway I did the reinstall and it worked as before.
Thanks for all answers!
tobias
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Von: Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc. [mailto:kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net]
Gesendet: Do 05.10.2006 17:39
An: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Cc:
Betreff: [coba-e:07447] Re: strange OpenWebmail problem
>
> Tobias Gablunsky skrev:
>
>> Today I found a problem with Openwebmail.
>>
>> I use a CentOS4.4 BlueQuartz system with all the latest patches I think:
>> I replaced openwebmail-2.51-20050228 with openwebmail-2.52, built from
>> the .src.rpm from openwebmail.org. But the problem continued to exist.
>>
>> Everytime you try to log into the server you get an "Internal Server
>> Error".
>> "Premature end of script headers: openwebmail.pl" in the error.log of the
>> apache-server. It takes about five minutes for each login attempt to
>> produce the error-message. And for every OWM-instace there runs a
>> perl-process with as much cpu power it can get. Thats why I dont think it
>> is only a webserver problem.
>> And (of course ;) I didn't change anything at the webservers
>> configuration. The server was already running without problems for some
>> months. The only change I made is that I imported about 20 virtual sites
>> onto the server from an older RaQ4.
>>
>> Anyone any ideas/experiences?
>
> In my experience this has to do with one or both of two things:
>
> 1) Ownership of the openwemail cgi files needs to be root:mail - solve
> this with chown -R root:mail /path_to_openwebmail_cgi_folder/ - in my case
> /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/
>
> 2) Permissions on all openwebmail-* files in same cgi folder should be
> 4755 - not 0755 as default. Solve this with chmod 4755
> /path_to_openwebmail_cgi_folder/openwebmail-*.pl
>
> Hope this solves the prob for you.
>
> Jes
I had the same problem.
I uninstalled the webmail, then re-installed it and that fixed it.
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