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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe I am going about this wrong.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I don't use virtual users w/mysql, it seems much
less complicated for config for dovecot,
sendmail/procmail/smtp_auth.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only difference then is that I can't have the
<A href="mailto:user@domain1.com">user@domain1.com</A> and <A
href="mailto:user@domain2.com">user@domain2.com</A> as mailboxes. I would use
sendmail/virtusertable to alias <A
href="mailto:user@domain1.com">user@domain1.com</A> to the system user user1 and
<A href="mailto:user@domain2.com">user@domain2.com</A> to the system user
user2.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tech@netlinkcom.com href="mailto:tech@netlinkcom.com">Netlink
Tech</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dovecot@dovecot.org
href="mailto:dovecot@dovecot.org">dovecot@dovecot.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 31, 2006 6:28
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Dovecot] Confused about what
MTA, MDA, IMAP/POP server to use</DIV>
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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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>