I myself started to use debian after 4 years of redhat ( in the current server )
is there a way to check if the userdb.dat can be read by the exim
Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 10:49:12 +0300, Ben-Nes Michael
> <miki@???> wrote:
> >Any one using exim with courier imap and userdb.dat ?
>
> Yes.
>
> >Can any one tell me what driver should i use ? ( smartuser, appenfile )
>
> This depends on how you determine the user account. I have two setups
> for that.
>
> (1) Local system users with UNIX account, mail spool in home dir:
> Director:
> |systemuser_maildir:
> |# This director matches local user mailboxes. This is needed at least
> |# for local root mail which is delivered to admin. Local delivery is
> |# not done if SYSTEM_MAILDIR doesn't exist in the user's home dir, so
> |# users can control delivery.
> | debug_print = "D: systemuser_maildir for $local_part@$domain."
> | driver = localuser
> | transport = system_maildir_delivery
> | require_files = $local_part:+SYSTEM_MAILDIR
>
> SYSTEM_MAILDIR=$home/.mail
>
> Transport:
> |system_maildir_delivery:
> | debug_print = "T: system_maildir_delivery for $local_part@$domain (SYSTEM_MAILDIR)."
> | driver = appendfile
> | directory = SYSTEM_MAILDIR
> | directory_mode = 0700
> | mode = 0600
> | maildir_format = yes
> | create_directory = yes
> | create_file = "belowhome"
> | escape_string = ""
> | check_string = ""
> | prefix = ""
> | suffix = ""
> | delivery_date_add = yes
> | envelope_to_add = yes
> | return_path_add = yes
>
> You could authenticate these users against their UNIX accounts via
> PAM, but I generally refrain from doing so to prevent a sniffed POP3
> session from giving out a shell account, and authenticate local UNIX
> users via userdb with a different password.
>
> If users don't have local UNIX accounts, you'd have to use the
> smartuser director:
> Director:
> |domain_maildir:
> |# This director matches maildirs in delivery tables.
> | debug_print = "D: domain_maildir for $local_part@$domain."
> | driver = smartuser
> | transport = domain_maildir_delivery
> | domains = partial-lsearch;DELITABLEDIR/map
>
> Transport:
> |domain_maildir_delivery:
> | debug_print = "T: domain_maildir_delivery for $local_part@$domain \
> | (VIRTUAL_MAILDIR/${lookup{$domain}partial-lsearch{DELITABLEDIR/map}{$value}}/$local_part)."
> | driver = appendfile
> | directory = "DOMAIN_MAILDIR/${lc:${lookup{$domain}partial-lsearch{DELITABLEDIR/map}{$value}}}/${lc:$local_part}"
> | maildir_format = yes
> | user = mail
> | group = mail
> | directory_mode = 0700
> | mode = 0600
> | create_directory = yes
> | create_file = "belowhome"
> | escape_string = ""
> | check_string = ""
> | prefix = ""
> | suffix = ""
> | delivery_date_add = yes
> | envelope_to_add = yes
> | return_path_add = yes
>
> In DELITABLEDIR, text files that I call delivery tables are stored.
> There is a map file, too, that maps domains to delivery tables. The
> delivery tables are generated from the courier userdb sources with a
> shell script:
> |#!/bin/bash
> |# generates exim deliverytables from the courier userdb
> |
> |COURIERDIR="/etc/courier"
> |USERDBDIR="$COURIERDIR/userdb"
> |EXIMDIR="/etc/exim"
> |DELITABLEDIR="$EXIMDIR/delitables"
> |
> |cd $USERDBDIR
> |for domain in *; do
> | FILE="$DELITABLEDIR/$domain"
> | echo > $FILE "# exim delivery table"
> | echo >> $FILE "# generated by $0" >> $FILE
> | echo >> $FILE -n "# from $USERDBDIR/$domain on "
> | date >> $FILE +"%Y-%m-%d %k:%M:%S"
> | echo >> $FILE "# do not edit"
> | echo >> $FILE
> | < $domain sed 's/\([^@]*\).*/\1: \1/' >> $FILE
> |done
>
> Maybe it is possible to use the userdb db file directly, but with
> Debian, this causes problems with different db libs used by the exim
> and courier packages, so I decided to take this additional level of
> indirection.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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