Courier-IMAP comes with a POP server too. Plus there are Perl scripts so you can manage mail users out of a DB..no need to touch system passwd files. Might be fairly easy to convert these to a mod_perl setup. Plus you can take advantage of the goodness of qmail, Maildirs, and daemontools http://inter7.com/courierimap/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Bi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Scripts and passwd > > I dont even > > know if you can do it any other way with out touching the passwd/shadow > > files? > > Do you run this for internet or your intranet accounts ? If for internet, > try something different (e.g. Courier/IMAP.) > > If for intranet, and if you have to stay with Pop3, there is no way but to > touch the password file. If you don't mind a web-based mail, a possible > solution may like this: 1) set up a normal web-based membership service; 2) > write a mail filter; 3) catch every email and check if the recipient is in > your database, (yes) ? move the mail to the DB : normal mailbox. > > Well, I think someone's in this maillist may have already such a system and > can share their experience. On the other hand, while this has a lot to do > with Perl, it has little with mod_Perl. > > > Peter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 1:56 AM > Subject: Re: Scripts and passwd > > > > > > Hello > > > > Thanks for the reply. Yes this server is running mod perl :) > > > > As for risky. Well the whole point of the script system is to add a pop > mail > > box for a user. But in order to do this i have to do the following: > > > > add user to the passwd/shadow file > > add user to the virtusertable and genericstable > > recompile the sendmail config files > > > > Then and only then is the new mailbox ready for use. This is the only way > I > > can think of to accomplish this via an automated web proccess. I dont even > > know if you can do it any other way with out touching the passwd/shadow > > files? > > > > Thanks! John. > > > > > You're doing something pretty risky there. the passwd/shadow files are > > only > > > writable by root. So I suppose that when running them from the command > > line > > > you run them as root. Apache doesn't run as root (its children which > serve > > > the requests atleast), so mod_perl (I suppose you *are* using mod_perl? > If > > > not, this is more appropriate for another newsgroup) won't either. > > > > > > If you can run your script as CGI, you could use suEXEC. But really, > > really > > > consider the security implications of what you're doing there before > > > allowing users to trash your machine very fast... > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Per Einar Ellefsen > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > >
