Re: [Exim] Re: About running the whole mail system as 'exim'

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Author: Jan Schreckenbach
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: About running the whole mail system as 'exim'
George Schlossnagle wrote:
>
> I run a mail system that has no local users with exim and cyrus imap. I
> use mysql to auth imap and for alias/vacation management. I've
> encountered no drawbacks from using this method, except an inability for
> users to maintai there own filter files in the db, but thats being
> addressed.
>
> George

Hi,

Running a server with both, real and virtual users is no problem.
The imapd can use any authentication method via PAM, but not the
timesived. The latter is nessesary to give users the option to
upload a sieve script. Maybe someone has a solution for that.

cu,
Jan

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