Hi all:
Okay, this is offtopic, sorry, but given the amount of gurus here and
the fact that related subjects have been popping up lately, I thought
that I would ask:
I'm trying to set up a mail server that can handle several virtual
domains and allow IMAP access without requiring to add every user to
/etc/passwd. My plan is to use David Harris' patched IMAP server with
mboxes (no Maildirs due to excessive inode consumption), and use its PAM
authentication abilities of the server to authenticate against... well,
something (depending on which PAM module I can find; ideally would be
against a Postgres database, but would settle for Radius or something
else). What I don't know exactly is: in that case, how would the IMAP
server know where to find the home directory of the user? Is that
something that the PAM module is supposed to supply? Or would the home
directory be the one of the user that owns the directories where the
mail is stored? (Say: "popuser", which owns /home/mail/, which has the
directories of the mail accounts: /home/mail/luser1,
/home/mail/megaluser, etc.). In the latter case, how can I make the IMAP
server know in which directory to look at?
Thanks in advance,
Paulo Jan.
DDnet.
