Netlink Tech wrote:
Maybe I am going about this wrong. If I don't use virtual users w/mysql, it seems much less complicated for config for dovecot, sendmail/procmail/smtp_auth. The only difference then is that I can't have the user@domain1.com <mailto:user@domain1.com> and user@domain2.com <mailto:user@domain2.com> as mailboxes. I would use sendmail/virtusertable to alias user@domain1.com <mailto:user@domain1.com> to the system user user1 and user@domain2.com <mailto:user@domain2.com> to the system user user2. Will using the password/shadow/pam auth method be as fast and handle as many users as auth to a mysql db? (i.e. would 10,000 mail users cause a slowdown with system users and not if using mysql?)
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
What's wrong with using pam-mysql for all your users and adding in a "shell" column to identify those users allowed to shell in? This would also solve your SMTP_Auth question.
I have no idea about quotas.
Leeman