Let me just get straight to what I'm trying to do and see if somebody can
help me figure out how to do it.  I'm setuping up a server to do virtual
domain and email hosting for customers.  I'm assuming that 90% of the
customers using my system will want to do just POP3 email for their
domains, however, I want to make it possible for the other 10% to use a
shell account to access their email.  Rather than make this a necessarily
either or situation, I want to make it so that if they have POP3 email
accounts, their mail will be default be delivered to those, but everything
else will go into their standard system account.

Because I want to make this system compatible with Pine, elm, etc, I would
prefer to use the old mailbox format for the system accounts, but use
Maildir, or MAilbox, for the POP3 accounts.  So here's what I need.  I
want to find a way to using a simple POP3 daemon, that can handle both
Mailbox and Maildir formats, and will look to a customers system
(/var/mail) box if their username in the POP3 protocol is just a username,
or in their virtual POP3 box if their username is '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.

I realize this is probably a horribly complicated system, but I think it
would help my service appeal to both the power (shell & POP3 --
like me) user, and more standard (POP3-only) users.

Any ideas on how to set this up would be greatly appreciated.

Ben

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