exim-users@??? said:
} Now since Exim is capable of handling virtual domains / virtual user
} accounts etc. just fine, I'd like to have a short feedback on what
} kind of POP daemon someone would recommend that work with something
} else than users in your passwd..
} We've rather many users in our passwd, I'd say it's too much and now
} I'm looking for a pop3 daemon I don't have to patch to make it work
} without passwd.
I guess that you have some form of user/passwd mapping along with mailbox->
user mapping, its just not in passwd. So you really just need
authentication checking other than Unix normal.
There are a series of possibilities:-
1. If you use Linux (probably just Red Hat > 4.x), or Solaris > 2.6
you could use any PAM compliant pop daemon (I think - UID mapping
might be interesting).
2. I used to use Cubic Circle's cucipop which has the authentication
checking nicely separated out so modifying it is pretty easy,
but does require code patches.
ftp://ftp.fdt.net/pub/unix/packages/cucipop/
ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/cucipop/
3. The pop3d from qmail has the auth checking in a completely
separate program. Writing a new one is easy and nicely separate
from the pop daemon.
Nigel.
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