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. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
