[Dovecot] Confused about what MTA, MDA, IMAP/POP server to use
Leeman Strout
me at mooluv.com
Fri Mar 31 16:59:44 EEST 2006
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 at domain1.com
> <mailto:user at domain1.com> and user at domain2.com <mailto:user at domain2.com>
> as mailboxes. I would use sendmail/virtusertable to alias
> user at domain1.com <mailto:user at domain1.com> to the system user user1 and
> user at domain2.com <mailto:user at 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
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