Tony Bibbs wrote: >Thanks Peter, that helps! > >OK, so what I did was I created a user called courieruser and the >system, for example, give it a uid of 3 and a gid of 4. I did an alter >table on passwd so that the uid/gid default to those values and I did an >update on the table to apply those values to any existing records. > >I'm assuming I need to do a maildirmake as that user to create the >maildir. My question (maybe this is more than I need to know) is how >does Courier use a single maildir for multiple users. Specifically, if I >insert a new user into the MySQL table, will the users virtual maildir >be created automatically? > >--Tony > >On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 11:34, Peter C. Norton wrote: > >>You assign one real uid/gid combination(to own the maildirs, etc) and you >>build a database (either userdb, ldap, postgres, mysql, or anything else you >>want to program for) and use that database to authenticate users, with all >>uid and gid set the the virtual user that you set up. Some schema examples >>are in the authmysql and the authpostgres documentation. >> >>-Peter >> >>On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 10:47:56AM -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote: >> >>>I'm a Courier convert and I've dug around in the installation document >>>an can't seem to find how to configure Courier to use virtual email >>>accounts as opposed to creating valid system accounts (I'll be using >>>mysql authentication). Any points of reference, gotchas, etc would be >>>appreciated. >>> >>>Thanks in advance, >>> >>>--Tony >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>courier-users mailing list >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users >>> >>-- >>The 5 year plan: >>In five years we'll make up another plan. >>Or just re-use this one. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>courier-users mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >courier-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > No, you will have to make a new directory for each user. I put them all in /home/mailusers.
So, for the addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the following directories: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ each of which has it's own Maildir subdirectory, where mail gets delivered to. You can easly script the addition of a user into the sql database, and the directory creation though... _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
