On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:34, Piers Wren wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a nice way to intigrate a linux mail server > into an existing win2k LAN. Basically what i want is for mail to be > hosted on a nice reliable linux box, but for users to be able to use > their existing win2k usernames and passwords to access their mail > (imap/pop). > > I've looked at the main smtp servers i know (qmail, sendmail, postfix, > exim) and imap (uw-imap, couier imap) and nobody seems to mention > anything similar to this. About the closest I can find is PAM > authentication in courier.
For mail retrieval (pop, imap), get the server to use pam, and have pam_smb or pam_winbind configured to talk to your Windows box. This is really straight-forward, and works well. > 1. Is there a better way to do this? > 2. does the linux box itself have to use the winbind pam module, or can > courier use it regardless? You can choose which pam modules to use per service, see /etc/pam.d/ > 3. If i don't use winbind for the linux login, how will the smtp server > know what the valid accounts are for receiving mail? That's slightly more challenging. :-) I'd recommend using your MTA's LDAP support to talk to Active Directory. - Jeff -- Fear and Loathing in Dublin, Ireland -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
