Hi, I'm trying to come up with a nice way to intigrate a linux mail server into an existing win2k LAN. Basically what i want is for mail to be hosted on a nice reliable linux box, but for users to be able to use their existing win2k usernames and passwords to access their mail (imap/pop).
I've looked at the main smtp servers i know (qmail, sendmail, postfix, exim) and imap (uw-imap, couier imap) and nobody seems to mention anything similar to this. About the closest I can find is PAM authentication in courier. I haven't used it, but i know there's winbind to get the linux box to authenticate against the win2k server and i'm assuming that could be used for courier imap, but i'm a bit lost for how to put it together. my main questions are... 1. Is there a better way to do this? 2. does the linux box itself have to use the winbind pam module, or can courier use it regardless? 3. If i don't use winbind for the linux login, how will the smtp server know what the valid accounts are for receiving mail? I guess the first question is the one i'm most concerned about. This seems like it should be a reasonably common problem. Also, putting in a samba server for authenticating the windows machines isn't an option as i'm using features from Active directory. In a worst case scenario I can just give people 2 seperate logins, one for windows and one for mail, but I'd like to avoid that if possible. Thanks. -- Regards, Piers Wren Informic IT Solutions for small business Phone: 0402 032 649 Fax: (02) 9528 9059 www.informic.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
