On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 21:41, Greg Earle wrote:
> This isn't strictly Courier related (well, it *is*, in a sense), but
> I'm stuck ...
> 
> I've got Courier 0.42.2 installed and running fine on a Solaris 8 box.
> 
> In making design decisions on how to set up user accounts and access,
> we decided that we didn't want to let anyone log onto the machine,
> and we decided that we didn't want it automounting home directories
> either.  We decided to try and keep the mail server as isolated as
> possible from NFS mount dependancies and from user access.
> 
> So, we've implemented Courier with "userdb" authentication and Maildirs.
> 
> DEFAULTDELIVERY is set to "| /opt/courier/bin/maildrop -d" in
> /opt/courier/etc/courierd.
> 
> For WebMail access, we're running the latest Horde/IMP/Turba/etc. setup.
> 
> I'm beginning to rue this decision/setup - how does one provide
> remote access (Web-based, preferably) to setting up things like
> vacation, mail forwarding, changing (userdb) passwords, and the like?
> 
> We also have some people/projects who were used to using "procmail",
> and since "procmail" was used as the local mailer in the old
> "sendmail" setup on our old mail server, that worked automagically.
> We need to emulate (or enable) that behavior, somehow.
> 
> The Ingo stuff in Horde has the ability to handle some of this stuff,
> but it uses a "VFS" driver and FTP's files to the mailserver, which
> of course doesn't work in a "userdb"-only environment.
> 
> I'm assuming that maybe there's a way to emulate "vacation" and
> mail forwarding- and perhaps even "procmail" functionality - using
> ".mailfilter" and/or ".courier" files (or "maildroprc" files, perhaps)
> somehow, but I don't know how to do it - and more importantly, there is no
> Web-based app that I know of to change/add/alter information to these files
> remotely.

Maybe quica (quica.sourceforge.net) can acomplish what you want, but it
uses SQL instead of userdb.



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