Hello all, I've been going through so much documentation for so many different components (Courier-IMAP, maildrop, qmail, sendmail, etc. etc.) that I'm getting dizzy. I'm resorting to a post to this list, and I hope I'm not missing something obvious (likely) in one of the FAQs or elsewhere. Here goes...
I have Sendmail running on my mail server, with POP access to mail only. I want to provide web-based email access, so I went with Squirrelmail and Courier-IMAP. Up until now, each user who wants a POP account has received an actual UNIX user account (with shell disabled). I've read the docs with Courier-IMAP and I like the userdb method where all mail accounts are "owned" by one UNIX account, say vmail, use maildirs, and are under /home/vmail/domains/mydomain/user. Of course, I have many domains. Now, I've managed to get things to work in my tests by changing certain sendmail aliases for certain test accounts to pipe through "maildrop -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Sure enough, the mail gets there. I know that maildrop can be substituted for procmail as Sendmail's local delivery agent, and that was my plan. However, I simply cannot understand how to get Sendmail to *allow* arbitrary addresses (since it doesn't read my /etc/userdb directory--/etc/userdb/default, /etc/userdb/myfirstdomain.com, etc.--in order to know who is really a user since I want the virtual users rather than actual UNIX accounts) and let maildrop determine whether or not the user exists. Right now, I have to create an alias for every single virtual (test) user with the hard-coded pipe through maildrop. Otherwise, the process never even reaches the local delivery agent (maildrop), because Sendmail knows of no such user. I then decided to go with Qmail instead of Sendmail, for the added benefits of Qmail, but I have similar problems. I realize that this isn't the Qmail list, nor the Sendmail list, so forgive me if I'm too far off-topic. I just thought that maybe one of you has this (seemingly very common) type of setup and could help get me unstuck. FYI, I've been looking at: * my installed docs for Courier-IMAP-1.4.2 * my installed docs for maildrop-1.3.7 * the Sendmail docs * sendmail.org * qmail.org * flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/ I think I've literally been going in circles. Many, many TIA. Dan --------------------------------------------------- Dan Yost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Proverbs 1:7 http://tri8.com Tri-8, Inc. "Pro Christo et Regno" 820 S. Main, Suite 2000 Voice: 405.377.3888 Stillwater, OK 74074 FAX: 405.533.1136 --------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users