Re: [webmin-l] while we're at it (cyrus imapd)

[Adam K. <ake...@ni...>]

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What about dovecot as an IMAP daemon? Does it play well with Usermin?

Jamie Cameron proclaimed the following on 09/16/2005 02:50 PM:
> Usermin isn't really the best mail reader to use with cyrus, although that hasn't stopped people from trying :-) It really works best with more traditional mail stores, and has the advantage that it runs with the correct permissions to access all mail files directly.
> 
> It may be better to instead use a web-based mail reader more suited to LDAP, such as squirrelmail..
> 
>  - Jamie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From:  Craig White <cra...@az...>
> Subj:  [webmin-l] while we're at it (cyrus imapd)
> Date:  Fri 16 Sep 2005 2:11 pm
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> To:  web...@li...
> 
> I cannot conceive of a method with which to configure 'Read User Mail'
> module to use cyrus mail folder storage
> 
> /var/spool/imap/c
>                  /user/craig
>                             /subfolder
>                             /subfolder
>                  /user/charles
>                             /subfolder
> /var/spool/imap/r
>                  /user/root
> 
> files are all owned by cyrus:mail (not that it should make a difference)
> 
> and IMAP subscriptions/seen/ & cyrus mailboxes db are in another tree
> thought this wouldn't matter since you don't do IMAP at all with the
> webmail implementation and I'm thinking that it could be havoc to give a
> user access around cyrus and the mailboxes db would be none the wiser.
> 
> So I spent only a few minutes trying to figure out how to configure the
> module, decided that it didn't lend itself to the mbox/maildir and user
> home directories slant the module relies upon.
> 
> It's not important to me - just wondering if I am missing the blindingly
> obvious.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 

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