As I understood, Postfix can deliver letters to a maildir/mailbox without MDA, but no IMAP/POP3 access service will provide.
I believe too that SASL is a good way for authentication: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html Postfix can have its own authentication with plain-text files, but has no sense if you want both to send and receive with a MUA like M.Thunderbird. El 10/07/14 08:53, Muhammad Yousuf Khan ha escrit: > Postfix is an MTA only. for IMAP and POP you need dovecot or courier > combined with Postfix. > > Thanks, > Yousuf > > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Arun <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am just starting to build up my Postfix server. > > I have been reading the many docs. I decided to set up with > virtual_domains. > > For a simple first step I am not using the MySQL database tables > yet, only flat files. > > In my main.cf <http://main.cf> configuration file I put > > /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf <http://main.cf> > ... > virtual_mailbox_domains = mx.testdomain.loc > virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vhosts > virtual_mailbox_maps = /usr/local/etc/postfix/vmailbox > virtual_minimum_uid = 100 > virtual_uid_maps = static:5000 > virtual_gid_maps = static:5000 > > And then I put just one user in it > > /usr/local/etc/postfix/vmailbox > [email protected] mx.testdomain.loc/arun/ > > From my reading I thinkg this will work okay. > > What I do not understand is how to put in a password for the only > one user in a flatfile, not a database. There are many docs for the > database approach to it. But I have not found one for just a flatfile. > > How do I add a password for the "[email protected]" that I > would use in my mail client program, like Thunderbird, to access the > account? Both for sending and receiving? > > Thank you for your help. > > Arun > >
