Re: [courier-users] courier-imap + virtual users

[Dan Y. <da...@tr...>]

Actually, that has been crossing my mind lately.  It certainly may have 
some advantages, though I sure would like to use qmail either now or in 
the not-too-distant future...

Thanks,
Dan


On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Edwin Culp wrote:

> Have you thought about just installing the complete courier-0.37.2.20020125 
> as an integrated solution?  I just installed it a couple of weeks ago and
> am very glad I did.  I wouldn't want to go back to different programs
> for each piece of the puzzle.
> 
> ed
> 
> Quoting Dan Yost <da...@tr...>:
> 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I've been going through so much documentation for so many different 
> > components (Courier-IMAP, maildrop, qmail, sendmail, etc. etc.) that I'm 
> > getting dizzy.  I'm resorting to a post to this list, and I hope I'm not 
> > missing something obvious (likely) in one of the FAQs or elsewhere.  Here 
> > goes...
> > 
> > I have Sendmail running on my mail server, with POP access to mail only.  I
> > 
> > want to provide web-based email access, so I went with Squirrelmail and 
> > Courier-IMAP.  Up until now, each user who wants a POP account has received
> > 
> > an actual UNIX user account (with shell disabled).  I've read the docs with
> > 
> > Courier-IMAP and I like the userdb method where all mail accounts are 
> > "owned" by one UNIX account, say vmail, use maildirs, and are under 
> > /home/vmail/domains/mydomain/user.  Of course, I have many domains.  Now, 
> > I've managed to get things to work in my tests by changing certain sendmail
> > 
> > aliases for certain test accounts to pipe through "maildrop -d 
> > har...@do...."  Sure enough, the mail gets there.  I know that 
> > maildrop can be substituted for procmail as Sendmail's local delivery 
> > agent, and that was my plan.  However, I simply cannot understand how to 
> > get Sendmail to *allow* arbitrary addresses (since it doesn't read my 
> > /etc/userdb directory--/etc/userdb/default, /etc/userdb/myfirstdomain.com, 
> > etc.--in order to know who is really a user since I want the virtual users 
> > rather than actual UNIX accounts) and let maildrop determine whether or not
> > 
> > the user exists.  Right now, I have to create an alias for every single 
> > virtual (test) user with the hard-coded pipe through maildrop.  Otherwise, 
> > the process never even reaches the local delivery agent (maildrop), because
> > 
> > Sendmail knows of no such user.  I then decided to go with Qmail instead of
> > 
> > Sendmail, for the added benefits of Qmail, but I have similar problems.  I 
> > realize that this isn't the Qmail list, nor the Sendmail list, so forgive 
> > me if I'm too far off-topic.  I just thought that maybe one of you has this
> > 
> > (seemingly very common) type of setup and could help get me unstuck.  FYI, 
> > I've been looking at:
> > 
> > * my installed docs for Courier-IMAP-1.4.2
> > * my installed docs for maildrop-1.3.7
> > * the Sendmail docs
> > * sendmail.org
> > * qmail.org
> > * flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/
> > 
> > I think I've literally been going in circles.
> > 
> > Many, many TIA.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
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