Thats a pretty good idea.
I'm going to play with using a single dbm structure with courier and
exim.
Actually, this brings me to a new point -- I've only known courier for
imap.
Does anyone use somehting they like more?
On Jan 12, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Fred Viles wrote:
> On 12 Jan 2004 at 13:24, Jonathan Vanasco wrote about
> "[Exim] Need Recommendation: Backend":
>
> |...
> | It works great -- but its a bit overkill for my personal web
> machine.
> | I'd like that to run exim, and handle virtual accounts with something
> | simpler than ldap -- perhaps dbm or a flatfile.
>
> For a really lightweight solution, just use maildir directories.
> Then exim doesn't need any sort of database at all, and you can use
> courier-imap's userdb for the POP/IMAP passwords.
>
> | Can anyone point me to a setup they've enjoyed in the past.
>
> Here's mine (I don't think it can get much simpler). In exim:
>
> # router
> localuser:
> driver = accept
> local_part_suffix = +* : -*
> local_part_suffix_optional
> local_parts = dsearch;/var/spool/vmail
> transport = local_delivery
> cannot_route_message = Unknown user
>
> #transport
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> directory = /var/spool/vmail/$local_part
> maildir_format
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> group = mail
>
> And I use this script to create the mailboxes and courier-imap
> accounts:
>
> #! /bin/sh
> #
> # usage: userdb-adduser username password
> #
> mkdir /var/spool/vmail/$1
> touch /var/spool/vmail/$1/maildirfolder
> mkdir /var/spool/vmail/$1/{new,cur,tmp}
> chmod -R 700 /var/spool/vmail/$1
> chown -R mail.mail /var/spool/vmail/$1
> /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/userdb $1 set home=/var/spool/vmail
> mail=/var/spool/vmail/$1 uid=8 gid=12
> /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/userdbpw <<EOF |
> /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/userdb $1 set systempw
> $2
> $2
> EOF
>
>
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