Have you thought about just installing the complete courier-0.37.2.20020125 as an integrated solution? I just installed it a couple of weeks ago and am very glad I did. I wouldn't want to go back to different programs for each piece of the puzzle.
ed Quoting Dan Yost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > --- _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
