> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sam Varshavchik > Sent: Sunday, 4 February 2007 1:24 AM > To: Courier-Users > Subject: Re: [courier-users] userdb refuses to play ball (still) > for virtual accounts. > > Frank Hamersley writes: > > > # userdb -show admin > > pop3pw=password > > uid=3000 > > mail=/var/spool/mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > gid=1000 > > # > > Try to log in to a system account without a home directory defined in > /etc/passwd, and see how far you get. > > You need to specify this account's home directory.
Thanks for the heads up Sam. I am somewhat staggered that the daemon didn't feel compelled to whinge about the shortfall in such critical details! Given it was so silent I had presumed it was using (as defaults) those aspects of the daemons profile that were not explicitly declared in userdb, and was fully prepared to see permissions issues being logged if some of the paths supplied were out of its reach. That said, I now have the POP3 running albeit with Maildir ... which although I hadn't planned to do so, I presume would be the better (only?) option to establish a web mail capability? If so all I need to do is to get postfix to write to the Maildir rather than continue using the mbox file format. Cheers, Frank. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.30/674 - Release Date: 7/02/2007 3:33 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
