Hello...I'll TRY make this short. This post is
not specific to Dovecot...but many subscribers to this list have probably been
down this road.
(private replies welcome if you want it to go off
list)
I currently use Sendmail with MailScanner,
SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Procmail, and qpopper for POP3 (hash mail dirs
for mbox files)on RedHat 9 server.
Roaming users currently only have the option of
UebiMiau webmail interface to POP3 (doesn't work well)
I will be moving to a server with Fedora Core
5.(x86_64)
Things I would like to accomplish:
1) Move to maildir mailbox format (currently large
mbox files cause I/O flushing errors and problems for users
retrieving).
2) Use squirrelmail for webmail (IMAP) (local or
roaming users)
3) Enable local users (ones with current accounts
on the server) to continue to use their current client setup.
4) Enable any user to use the webmail
interface to retrieve/send email.
5) Enable roaming users (ones connected from any
location) to use Outlook Express or similar with SMTP_Auth and port 587 for
message submission and POP3/IMAP.
6) Enable mail quota.
I want the current users to use their current
settings (unless they roam...then require that they use webmail or SMTP_Auth and
port 587), but moving forward with new users, I have no reason to give them
shell access/system accounts....so I was thinking virtual users using user@domain and storing their auth information in
mysql db. (mysql will be used for radius...so it is already running on the
server).
Because I am trying to figure out how to keep the
existing users system accounts and move forward with new users only having
virtual accounts (just mail access with no login), I don't think I can use file
system quotas.
I have used Sendmail for 10 years, so I am familiar
with it and it has been very stable for me. (so I prefer to stick with it if I
can)
I rely heavily on MailScanner to scan/mark/clean virus and Procmail to
filter marked spam.
Qpopper is on the way out...A couple of weeks
messing with the test server and I already love Dovecot.
Questions:
1) Recommendations please: How to accomplish
with what configuration.
2) Quotas?
3) SMTP_Auth using Mysql for
virtual users? (works fine with PAM/system
passwords)
Sorry for not being Dovecot specific on the list.
Curt