Actually, that has been crossing my mind lately. It certainly may have some advantages, though I sure would like to use qmail either now or in the not-too-distant future...
Thanks, Dan On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Edwin Culp wrote: > Have you thought about just installing the complete courier-0.37.2.20020125 > as an integrated solution? I just installed it a couple of weeks ago and > am very glad I did. I wouldn't want to go back to different programs > for each piece of the puzzle. > > ed > > Quoting Dan Yost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello all, > > > > I've been going through so much documentation for so many different > > components (Courier-IMAP, maildrop, qmail, sendmail, etc. etc.) that I'm > > getting dizzy. I'm resorting to a post to this list, and I hope I'm not > > missing something obvious (likely) in one of the FAQs or elsewhere. Here > > goes... > > > > I have Sendmail running on my mail server, with POP access to mail only. I > > > > want to provide web-based email access, so I went with Squirrelmail and > > Courier-IMAP. Up until now, each user who wants a POP account has received > > > > an actual UNIX user account (with shell disabled). I've read the docs with > > > > Courier-IMAP and I like the userdb method where all mail accounts are > > "owned" by one UNIX account, say vmail, use maildirs, and are under > > /home/vmail/domains/mydomain/user. Of course, I have many domains. Now, > > I've managed to get things to work in my tests by changing certain sendmail > > > > aliases for certain test accounts to pipe through "maildrop -d > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Sure enough, the mail gets there. I know that > > maildrop can be substituted for procmail as Sendmail's local delivery > > agent, and that was my plan. However, I simply cannot understand how to > > get Sendmail to *allow* arbitrary addresses (since it doesn't read my > > /etc/userdb directory--/etc/userdb/default, /etc/userdb/myfirstdomain.com, > > etc.--in order to know who is really a user since I want the virtual users > > rather than actual UNIX accounts) and let maildrop determine whether or not > > > > the user exists. Right now, I have to create an alias for every single > > virtual (test) user with the hard-coded pipe through maildrop. Otherwise, > > the process never even reaches the local delivery agent (maildrop), because > > > > Sendmail knows of no such user. I then decided to go with Qmail instead of > > > > Sendmail, for the added benefits of Qmail, but I have similar problems. I > > realize that this isn't the Qmail list, nor the Sendmail list, so forgive > > me if I'm too far off-topic. I just thought that maybe one of you has this > > > > (seemingly very common) type of setup and could help get me unstuck. FYI, > > I've been looking at: > > > > * my installed docs for Courier-IMAP-1.4.2 > > * my installed docs for maildrop-1.3.7 > > * the Sendmail docs > > * sendmail.org > > * qmail.org > > * flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/ > > > > I think I've literally been going in circles. > > > > Many, many TIA. > > > > Dan > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > Dan Yost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Proverbs 1:7 > > http://tri8.com > > > > Tri-8, Inc. "Pro Christo et Regno" > > 820 S. Main, Suite 2000 Voice: 405.377.3888 > > Stillwater, OK 74074 FAX: 405.533.1136 > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- --------------------------------------------------- Dan Yost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Proverbs 1:7 http://tri8.com Tri-8, Inc. "Pro Christo et Regno" 820 S. Main, Suite 2000 Voice: 405.377.3888 Stillwater, OK 74074 FAX: 405.533.1136 --------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
