On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, ch045-2 wrote:
> What is so simple for you, is a real problem for me...
>
> I would like to run a mail-solution based on exim (for more than 300 users).
> I installed exim, qpopper, cyrus-imad and squirrelmail (for webmail).
qpopper expects use mail to be in system default location.
cyrus uses it own internal storage format.
Ergo, cyrus and qpopper can't share a mailstore. However, I beleive
cyrus now supports POP as well. I can however tell you that cyrus is a
boar to get working properly.
I assume squirrelmail is an IMAP webmail.
You can rig exim to deliver pretty much anywhere, so the best path is to
figure out where you want your mail stored, baseed on the pop/imap/etc
daemons you want to run, then hack on exim to deliver it there..
> All seem to run correctly, but i have problem to creat users compatible with
> the 3 servers...
>
> I have some questions...
>
> 1. By default (if i have good understand) exim create one user account (smtp
> account)
> for each unix user who receive mail on the server?
exim doesnt create any accounts.
> 2. So, is it secure to create a unix-account for each mail user?
It can be.
> 3. Can i use the cmd "adduser -g mail -p password -s /bin/false -e 2002-12-01
> -m user1" to do that?
> In fact, is it a good decision to put this user in the mail group (the
> exim's group),
> and is it possible to protect against shell login (do exim run for this
> user in this case)?
You dont want your usaer accounts in the mail group.
Users do not need to have shells for exim to deliver mail to them
> 4. I have problems with users names format. Can i use a "smith_P" login? Is
> this login format compatible
> with exim? I prefere to use format like "smith.p", but it seem that
It can be, but it is a bit unusual.
> cyrus-impad don't accept
> mailboxes with a point in the mailboxe name (the "cm user.smith.p" don't run
> in the cyradm
> program...)
Correct.
Really, you are better off using straight alphanumerics as usernames (no
punctuation at all) eg - "smithp"
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