Hello,
I just thought I would throw this out to the crowd to see if anyone is
interested:
I've just finished making a little qmail/cyrus package. qmail feeds the
mail to cyrus via the users/assign mechanism as per usual, the only
thing I've really done is to patch the cyrus imap server so that it
authenticates out of a cdb (the same hash format that users/assign uses)
instead of kerberos or /etc/passwd. And I have a perl script that allow
you to enter users into the system and it takes care of updating the
users/assign file, and the cdb file that cyrus is using to authenticate
from.
I like the cyrus imap server, but I'm not personally thrilled with
having to update /etc/passwd (and I haven't read up on Kerberos so I
don't know if it suited my needs) to add new users to the system. It's a
little hard to automate safely, at least I found it so. I wrote a little
expect script to do it, but it ended up being more trouble than it was
worth. I haven't done any extensive testing but the cdb method seems to
be working well for me. And I know for certain that a cdb is probably
going to work a lot better when I have all the masses trying to login at
the same time.
What I'm trying to do is make a simple mail server that has no users on
it. Something that can be maintained with a web page. Right now I can
maintain it with a perl script, but it would be easy to move a web form,
or a simple text-based maintenance program.
I'm also trying to jam SSL into the cyrus imap server, not successful
yet but I'm going to try stunnel which allows you to wrap socket daemon
thingy in SSL.
Anyway, if anyone is interested I've got two RPMS, plus the SRPMS. qmail
and cyrus go in their normal locations, I've just added a few files here
and there. The SRPMS have proper build roots too, so you can rebuild the
SRPMS on your systems without it them interfering with anything you've
already got installed.
Just drop me a line if you'd like the RPMS, if not I'll just go about my
business.
jason.
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