So, the question of the day from me is: Has anybody on this mailing list
used the hierarcheal scheme of delivering mail, and had to recompile
qpopper? How about IMAPD that comes with the pine package?
The reason I ask is that I do not see an option in any of the .h files in
qpopper3.0 that allow me to change the location of the maildrop to
/var/mail/u/us/username, etc...
Can anybody help me out on this?
Sincerely,
Richard G. Duvall
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 02:32:47PM -0700,
> Richard G. Duvall <rgduvall@???> is thought to have said:
>
> > Okay, then will moving the maildrops into the hierarchy scheme cause an
> > issue with the popper, imapd, etc?
> >
> > Also, I have the user's logins as /sbin/nologin. Since this is the case,
> > do my users really need a home directory on the mail server other than for
> > storing mail if I choose to store their spool there? They are using imap
> > in some cases, but I know that pop3 doesn't require a home directory.
> > Just want this set up so that it is transparent to the customer.
> >
> > so, you are saying it would be wise to do /usr/home on the RAID-10 setup,
> > rather than /var/mail, and store the mail in each user's home directory.
> > Right? Actually, I kind of like that idea, just as long as the popper and
> > imapd knows where to find the mail when somebody checks for new mail.
> >
>
> No that's really not necessary since your users don't have shell access. All of
> the systems I've built, they have so that has influenced my choice of file
> system layout. You should do what is appropriate for your environment.
>
> And yes you'll have to rebuild your POP/IMAP daemons to support that layout. As
> well as anything else that needs to touch users' mailboxes.
>
> Tabor
>
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> Tabor J. Wells twells@???
> Fsck It! Just another victim of the ambient morality
>
