Just to share, I think the whole IP thing is more complicated and doesn't help
when you need to go to a high availability situation.
I think maildir will do everything you want...
Fergal Daly wrote:
> I'll probably be doing this in the next month or so. My plan is to use exim
> which someone in the office has already configured for use with our MySQL
> database. It took with very little work.
>
> I have my own MySQL patches for qpopper and I plan to make them command line
> dependent, ie. you specify the name of the database table on the command
> line and it looks up all details in that.
>
> The final piece of the puzzle requires xinetd, this allows you to specify
> which IP address to bind a command to. The plan is to have pop.domain1 =
> 10.0.0.1 and pop.domain2 = 10.0.0.2 then set up xinetd to call popper with
> different arguments on each IP address. Something similar to IP based
> virtual hosts in apache.
>
> Fergal
>
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:36:43PM -0500, Jack Sasportas wrote:
> > There is a way to do it, I don't know how, but large ISP's are doing it.
> > I have heard something called maildir something that QMail works with, and
> > also some people mentioned ldap as another possible way. I do beleive
> > they use their own user file rather then linux's passwd, so it would be
> > something like
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