I like jabberd, because my family has Macs, and I can setup the jabberd server for iChat clients, and avoid getting accounts on AOL or Google or what have you. Right now I use MySQL for auth and storage, and manually add accounts with mysql.
I am thinking about setting up email accounts in addition to jabber accounts for friends/family, too. But I am scratching my head about how to set it up right. I figure having one central store for account information would be (1)simpler and (2)probably more secure But I'm having trouble understanding a good way to set up accounts: 1. I could give people real OpenBSD user accounts, then mail accounts would be simple, but I don't see a way to easily connect the OpenBSD user accounts to jabber accounts. 2. I guess I could keep using the jabberd MySQL auth and set up mail with postfix with virtual accounts, and somehow tie MySQL jabberd accounts to MySQL postfix accounts. But this isn't obviously easy to me either. Can someone tell me if I am overlooking something obvious? Thanks.
