On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:06:56PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:14:56AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
> >>That was the primary reason for using postfix with dovecot. Years
> >>back, I tried to get both sendmail and postfix working with SMTP AUTH
> >>and Cyrus as I recall. It was a mess. The super-easy integration of
> >>postfix and dovecot for SMTP AUTH is a welcome change.
> >
> >I think the main trick is in writing scripts that generate all
> >databases
> >from a single main file. This is fairly easy using perl, awk, ....
> >
> >Of course, this becomes a hundred times more difficult the moment user
> >administration is not done centrally.
>
> This is exactly why I have hesitated to move to a system based on
> postfix and dovecot for my main ISP mail server. I would still like
> to do it that way but it definitely brings up some other issues with
> easy user administration. My staff needs to be able to add accounts
> easily and unfortunately, the command line is not that easy for them.
> If I did all of the user administration all the time it would be a
> non-issue but that is not practical.
I'd suggest either writing quite a few scripts or looking at saslauthd,
then. The latter was already mentioned, and seems to be widely used.
Joachim
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