Re: [Nolug] Email passwords are.. special?

Yep. I think my biggest problems at this point are
1) lack of time
2) converting from sendmail to other mail programs. (Tried in the past
to go with postfix, then qmail and eventually gave up..... Who knows
there might be some scripts to do the conversions these days.)
3) lack of time

Eventually when the company grows, and we have more than 4 servers + one
of them converted from windows to Linux, then I hopefully have also more
time to reorganize all this stuff.... I can already envision not just
our own employees being authenticated from most likely LDAP, but also
most of our client services and access to services as well. (Takes lots
of planning and customization here and there.... so customizing the mail
stuff would be one of the smallest pieces....)

Petri

Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net> writes:
>
>
>> Now that the potential problem has been identified...
>>
>
> I think you're dealing with a non-issue, but you have a couple of
> options.
>
> Postfix+courier-imap can be configured to get their user information
> from a separate source like mysql.
>
> There are a few HOWTOs out there:
> http://postfix.wiki.xs4all.nl/index.php?title=Virtual_Users_and_Domains_with_Courier-IMAP_and_MySQL
> http://www.phparchitecture.com/howto_show.php?id=2
>
> You can find the others by googling for "postfix courier imap mysql"
> like I just did.
>
> I've used the above config for a couple of clients.
>
> You could use LDAP to set up multiple users and have them authenticate
> off of that. Properly configured (probably not what you want, since
> it takes a bit of customization) you can have your shell users and
> your mail-only users authenticating off of the same LDAP database
> across multiple services on multiple machines across an entire
> network. And you can force them to maintain separate email/login
> passwords.
>
> I've done something similar to that, but it takes a lot more work than
> the postfix/courier/mysql setup above.
>
> There are other options (like the cyrus mail server), but this should
> get you started.
>
>
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