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I'm working on the php based return mail handler (see http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviMail+Processor) and am stuck (because I get invalid username/password when testing the polling script) on the need to have a user (me, presumably) with civimail access.  How do I give myself civimail access?  I can find nothing about this in the documentation or from a search.  If I'm the Joomla super administrator, don't I already automatically have civimail access?

Thanks!
Problem solved . . . !

Hello, I´m new to civicrm and trying to use ver.2.2 (Standalone) with civimail.
I should test http://server.de/civicrm22/bin/CiviMailProcessor.php?name=XXX&pass=XXX&key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ok with the key, but which user and password should I use. I even tried it with root.
Allways get : ERROR: Unexpected error, could not match userID and contactID
Thanks for an answer.

The way API auth works for standalone in 2.2 is you have to assign an api_key to the user you want to have API access. Currently this must be done in the database in the civicrm_contact table (there is a field called api_key). You can put anything you want in there as long as it's a good password string.

Then in your API call (such as the above call to CiviMailProcessor.php), you pass your full OpenID as the username (e.g. http://me.myopenid.com/), the api_key as the password, and the site_key as the key.

Let me know if that doesn't work as I haven't tested it yet with the new CiviMailProcessor.