Hello all,
I'm having trouble with the interaction between userdb, aliases,
hostnames, hosteddomains, and the like. Looks like this is tricky for
lots of folks, or so I've been reading, but I thought somebody out there
might be able to help me cutover to courier more smoothly. Upon the
advice of some of you, it looks like I'm going to switch to courier 0.37.2
(running on Red Hat 7.0) instead of courier-imap+qmail/sendmail+maildrop
(standalone maildrop). Now, I'd really like to make this cutover
completely invisible to all of my mail users...otherwise maybe I'll just
turn off my phone after the cutover, since I know they won't all get my
email instructions and follow them.
Here's the deal. I host mydomain.com, myotherdomain.com, yadayada.com,
and so forth. Currently, using sendmail with mbox files, user
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pops his mail as "user joe, pass joespass" via port 110
(simplified). Now, I've got the userdb set up, along with hosteddomains,
to accept mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, now joe has to pop mail (or
login via imap) as "user [EMAIL PROTECTED], pass joespass." This is fine
with me. From now on, this is how I'll set up new users and domains. If
I put mydomain.com in /etc/courier/locals then mydomain.com will always be
stripped, which is no good because from now on I'll use the above manner,
with no system accounts and possibly identical names for different users
on different domains (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], but they're different
people). I only have a few folks (myself, for example) who won't be in
userdb because they have shell accounts and will receive mail accordingly.
However, for the other users I *already* have, I'd like to do some sort of
kludge to map "joe" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" for the purposes of
*authentication*, not just mail delivery. I know that I can edit
/etc/courier/aliases/system and map [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to a local real system account joe, with the result
being that mail sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as well as
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will be delivered to the system account joe, and
this is the case where some users get mail from multiple domains. I've
tried to accomplish the equivalence for authentication with aliases:
"joe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" since "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is what's in userdb, but
it won't authenticate. I hope I'm making sense. I just want to be able
to set user equivalence for a defined set of legacy users for the purpose
of *authentication*, not just delivery. Delivery I can do, authentication
I'm stuck on.
E.G.:
It'd be nice if I could do something like this in userdb:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <tab>
home=/home/vmail|mail=/home/vmail/domains/mydomain.com/joe|...|anothername=joe
That way, when pop3d/imapd receives "user joe, pass joespass," courier
would say "Well, I see that 'joe' is mapped to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in
userdb, so I'll proceed from now on as if the legacy user had typed
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'." The alternative is for me to have to contact all of
my users and tell them that, at some point during the day, they'll
suddenly receive errors from their mailers (everybody uses pop right now)
saying that the username/password is incorrect, and try to explain to them
that they have to change their username to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Thankfully I can at least preserve the password!
Lastly, I'd also like world peace, a perfect mouse trap, and the ability
to read minds. If somebody can at least help with courier then I'd be
satisfied.
Many TIA.
Regards,
Dan
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