Re: [Nolug] More Email Questions

Mark A. Hershberger wrote:

>"J. Kent Busbee, Jr." <buz@penwel.com> writes:
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>>I am setting up an email server. What is the best security settings for
>>setting up users who will be getting their email via pop.
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>The Courier suite of IMAP/POP tools has a variety of backends that you
>can plug into. They have great support for multiple domains
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>I've got multiple domains set up with Exim, Courier, and LDAP. Very
>few of the users have any system information (e.g. no shell info, no
>UID, no unique uidNumber).
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>>I guess that I will have to use adduser to add the users to the
>>system. (Or is there some method for adding email users to the
>>system -with a mailbox- without adding them as system users?)
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>LDAP is the way to go, really. Some sort of directory server. I use
>OpenLDAP, but I have just a few domains. There are plenty of tools
>out there to manage directory servers via LDAP as well.
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>>But, can they be set with NO shell and No home directory? Is that a
>>good idea for security?
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>If you want your users to only have access to email on the box, then
>this is a very good idea.
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>Mark.
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Hi Mark,
    Yes, I agree with you but am having a heck of a time setting up the
exim+courier+ldap beast. I have read a few how tos but do not see
exactly how this is done. I think this would make an excellent two or three part presentation. I would be happy to do this if I could get it right. The first error I get is a courier: login NO Error using plain port 143 login. Can't get past that.
Craig Jackson
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