Re: [Exim] question regarding maildir and mailbox...

Startseite
Nachricht löschen
Nachricht beantworten
Autor: Nico Erfurth
Datum:  
To: Mikel King
CC: exim-users
Betreff: Re: [Exim] question regarding maildir and mailbox...
Mikel King wrote:
>    I just have a couple of hopefully quick questions...My konundrum is
> that I have been tasked to develope my ISP's new email server platform,
> and well I am seriously leaning in exim's direction.


Good decision

>    1. Is it possible to define on a case by case basis the method of
> storage for a perticular user (email addy)?


If you mean something like

user1@yourdomain -> /some/maildir/folder/
user2@yourdomain -> /some/mailbox

Yes!

>    2. Does it work with the builtin vacation (you know the .forward,
> .vacation.db & .vacation.msg)?


What you mean?
Exim has a built-in vacation (autoreply) transport.

>    3. Is it possible to store (well anythin is possible but has anyone
> done it already...) the entirety of exim config in a     mysql db? I
> shall ellaborate: I want to be able to store domain names, email
> addresses w/ user profile,
>    virtusertable/aliases et cettera in the db.


Yes, many people do it, you can get nearly anything from databases.

>    4. (last question) has anyone ever converted from passwd file to
> mysql  while maintaining the users' current passwords?


Yes.