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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: |
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> i) NON Postfix Store : Separate Domains, NON-Unix Accounts |
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> ii) Postfix store : Separate Domains, UNIX Accounts |
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> Can all of these be done using NON-Postfix Store |
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> (cyrus/courier/dovecot) : Separate Domains with Unix and Non Unix |
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> Accounts? Depending on whether there is need for note (a) and (b) |
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> or should I just put the local users on a separate box? |
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> What are you using? I've seen quite a lot of Howto and docs but seems like |
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> my choice isn't one of those widely used scenerios. In addition to that, |
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> it also doesn't seem cyrus-imapd is much used too. |
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Last time I looked, SASL was a real pain to work with, maybe that's why |
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people go to courier instead of cyrus? ;-) |
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As far as user accounts go: we are using qmail so mail accounts live in |
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vpopmail. Now vpopmail stores accounts data in MySQL so users dont need |
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local accounts. We have a shell server that people can use if they want to |
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- on there Pine is configured to connect via IMAP anyway. |
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As far as webhosting goes, we are using libnss-mysql to provide virtual |
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accounts (again, out of MySQL) so users dont need local accounts. Making |
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the default shell on our web server, rssh, means we let them have ftp / |
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scp / sftp access to their sites (noone has shell access). The great thing |
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about libnss-mysql is that it just works transparently with proftpd, and |
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even system quotas work! |
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All of these things avoid the need for local user accounts on our mail and |
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web servers and its easy to backup MySQL. |
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