I beleive your best option is postfix, I have been researching and postfix is
FAST, and WELL documented, so it's much better then sendmail, then you can make
it work with whatever popper you want. I don't know enought to help, I actually
wanted to hire someone to do it for me because I don't have the time to get
involved in it....
Fergal Daly wrote:
> I've done this, it's not the cleanest patch in the world and you still have
> the problem of local delivery, how does sendmail or whatever look into the
> mysql table? I'm looking at switching to Exim instead of sendmail or maybe
> something else as it seems to be easier to extend and easier to query
> databases from - it's got a builtin Perl interpreter, so you can write your
> mail delivery rules in Perl, which is a big win in my book,
>
> Fergal
>
> At 15:33 07/09/00, S�ren Peter Skou wrote:
> >Okay, so far so good, I've got the pam_mysql working on FreeBSD with 3.1B10
> >(Version correct this time :) and together with qpopper I'm now able to
> >Authenticate users, but only if those users exists both in master.passwd and
> >in the SQL Database I've setup for the purpose. The password the system
> >checks against is the one from SQL so that part is fine and dandy.
> >
> >I then stepped back and looked at what I was trying once again, and it
> >became apparent that it wasn't what I wanted, instead I wanted something
> >along these lines:
> >
> >MySQL (Or other SQL for that matter) contains the equivalent of
> >master.passwd
> >Pop3 server then knows where to look for it's mailfile for a given user, ie.
> >the user bork will have /var/mail/bork (yes, I am incredibly simpleminded)
> >:).
> >apache server looks into the same table to find users homedir, and can
> >prepend whatever USER_DIR is defined to be in the httpd.conf
> >MTA also looks here to find where to put the mail (ie, /var/spool).
> >
> >I'm imagining a table that looks something like this:
> >
> >id - Only inside the Database
> >username - For the authentication and location of mailfiles.
> >password - For authentication purposes
> >home_dir - user's homedir
> >mail_dir - Where to look for the users mailfile.
> >
> >As I see it this is more or less what I need, anyone who has done this, or
> >are in the process of doing so, I'd be more than happy to help in anyway I
> >can.
> >
> >
> >Friendly Greetings
> >S. P. Skou
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