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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(private replies welcome if you want it to go off
list)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I currently use Sendmail with MailScanner,
SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Procmail, and qpopper for POP3 (hash mail dirs
for mbox files)on RedHat 9 server. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Roaming users currently only have the option of
UebiMiau webmail interface to POP3 (doesn't work well)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will be moving to a server with Fedora Core
5.(x86_64)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Things I would like to accomplish:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Move to maildir mailbox format (currently large
mbox files cause I/O flushing errors and problems for users
retrieving).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) Use squirrelmail for webmail (IMAP) (local or
roaming users)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) Enable local users (ones with current accounts
on the server) to continue to use their current client setup.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4) Enable any user to use the webmail
interface to retrieve/send email.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>6) Enable mail quota. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 <A
href="mailto:user@domain">user@domain</A> and storing their auth information in
mysql db. (mysql will be used for radius...so it is already running on the
server).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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)<BR>I rely heavily on MailScanner to scan/mark/clean virus and Procmail to
filter marked spam.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Qpopper is on the way out...A couple of weeks
messing with the test server and I already love Dovecot.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Questions:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Recommendations please: How to accomplish
with what configuration.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) Quotas?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) SMTP_Auth using Mysql for
virtual users? (works fine with PAM/system
passwords)</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR>Sorry for not being Dovecot specific on the list.</DIV>
<DIV>Curt</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>