From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:08:30 EST
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:40:04PM +0100, Georg Gretz wrote:
> - The server has to receive mail from internet and sort it into the
> mailboxes. The assignment email-address <-> pop-box has to be managed
> thru a mysql db. Postfix has to search for the particular address in
> the db and put the mail into the pop-box.
>
> - As POP/IMAP server I would like to set up Courier IMAP for authentication and serving mails to the user.
>
> - Also Posfix hast to act as a SMTP server to our customers. They have to authenticate over SMTP-Auth with the same username and password like on the IMAP server.
>
> I've already read the Postfix/CourierIMAP/MySQL howto, but I am a newbie on Linux (I'm usualy a coder ;) so the howto was not "simple" enough :-)
>
> My questions:
>
> - Do I have to use SASL/PAM_mysql for SMTP auth? Or is there a simpler way to authenticate users?
> - Which directives do I have to use for mapping address <-> pop-box?
man 8 virtual (use the virtual delivery agent),
> - What is the difference between local an virtual transport? Only the
> ability to read the local mails direct on the machine without a
> POP/IMAP server?
local can execute commands using .forward
local honors aliases
virtual doesn't
> - We have multiple domains, which our customers can choose from to
> create their mail accounts. Also the customers should be able to
> register domain names by themself and create mail accounts under
> their domain. Does every domain have to be added to the main.cf?
man 5 virtual
(create virtual domains in the mysqldb)
> - Is it enough to create an new account in the mysql db for adding a
> new user? Or do I have to tell postfix to create an account, create
> directories in the maildir etc?
You'll have to create the directory with the correct permissions.
> - How do I tell Postfix to be run chrooted? Is it enough to change
> every service in the master.cf to be run chrooted?
Yep. You cannot run pipe, local or virtual chrooted.
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