Hi
I use cucipop it allows you to do hash lookups, eg
username is iqbal
then it will lookup mail in say /any/directory/i/iqbal or you can even
do t on the first and second letters etc etc i/q/iqbal
Iqbal
David M Walker wrote:
>
> Phil Daws wrote:
>
> > Last question honest :) Have you modified you POP server so that it
> > will look in a certain domains directory for its email? I see from
> > you ISP template that all domain mail goes under eg.
> > /var/mail/domains/xyz
> > instead of the normal mail location of /var/mail ?
>
> The issue with POP accounts (I use POP3) is that you can not change
> where it looks for the mailbox (unless you are willing to change
> source code - noooooooooooooo)
>
> So, the following has to occur - a POP user must exist in the
> real /etc/passwd with a valid passwd. This causes a conflict if
> two virtual customers want the same username (i.e. fbloggs).
> Since I give every customer a unique unix group (700,701,...)
> I prefix the username with the customer account (701.fbloggs)
>
> Next I need to attach the pop3 mail file /var/mail/spool/701.fbloggs
> to the read file (/var/mail/domains/xyz/fbloggs), a symbolic link
> will do this.
>
> Finally a litle automation with a web page can make this
> transparent to the user
>
> rgds
>
> davidw
>
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