Curious problem I have run into with Courier (full package install on a ydl2.1 machine).
Its fairly basic and simple, and pretty much handled by other email servers, so I am sure I just overlooking something. For virtual users, I store them in a mysql db that is linked to courier's authdaemond process. That works fine. Mail coming in to a user of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" gets filed into the proper Maildir. The mysql entry for login id IS "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in full. This is so there can be a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and a "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" etc. Since domain.com and domain2.com are listed in the 'hosteddomains' file and NOT in the 'locals' file. Ok, so my problem is this: remotely getting mail from the box. I have one hack workaround... but its a hack, and I can't believe this is how you would do this... BUT, email clients to connect to the server to get mail, pass the form of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". For some reason Courier is not matching that in FULL (like it does with incoming mail to deliver) to give access to the user. It instead just says AUTH -Fail (couldnt find the user/pass combo that matched, and yes I have double checked my user and pass heh). So, there is an alternative setup in email clients to store the login information as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This then passes "user%virtualdomain.com" as the login id to courier. However since in the mysql its only stored as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", it doesnt match. My hack work around, is DUPLICATING the user entry in the mysql db, one being "user@virtdomain" and the other being "user%virtdomain"... both with the exact same crypt, home, guid. Its a hack, but it then works, as incoming mail matches the proper one, and remote getting of mail matches the proper user. Is this the only way? A question I am begging to ask is, is there any way to tell courier to CHANGE the % to an @ to look up the user when its a remote connection? Or vice versa, tell courier to change an @ to a % to lookup against the db for mail delivery... either one will work, so long as I dont have to store TWO DB ENTRIES for every stinken user in the system ;-) Any help would be helpful... and sorry for the length of this, I just wanted to be concise to help with possible answers/ideas. As a side note: everything else works... aliases, forwarding, alias@virtdomain, virtual domains, virtual users etc etc. (well, all except webmail, that thing I havnt attempted yet). -ifm ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
