[NTLUG:Discuss] Single UID Mailbox for qmail use imap?

[Jack Snodgrass]

Unless I missed somethig about Qmail, it's just a mail program like
sendmail or postfix. It just receives the mail.

The server that your users connect to to get mail ( via POP or IMAP )
is different.

I use Cyrus-Imap to do IMAP and POP. It runs a 'closed' mail store.
No user access is allowed to the mail files. Users's ( the way I have it
set up ) are authenticated via a mysql server. There are several ways
to set it up so that you don't need to have real users setup in the
/etc/passwd file.

Other IMAP servers that I've heard about are Courier IMAP and
the UofW IMAP server. I think that both of those use 'user space'
type mail stores so you do need to have users set up on the system
to access their mail. ( I could be wrong about this ) One advantage
that both of these have over Cyrus is that they allow you to have mail
on a NFS ( or probably SAMBA ) remote file system. The way that
Cyrus does it's mail ( and indexes ) you can't do this. This makes it
a bit harder ( or impossible ) to set up a distributed or a failover type
system.

jack

----- Original Message -----
From: "m m" <llliiilll at hotmail.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:22 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Single UID Mailbox for qmail use imap?


> Hi all:
>
> Is there any one has the experience set up imap account/boxes for Qmail to
> provide email services for hundreds, even several hundreds of thousands of
> people (email addresses, and POP3 boxes) using a single system UID (i.e.
> each account does not need a separate system /etc/passwd style account).
>
> I know it can be done by use pop3 server, I like to know hot to setup it
by
> use imap server.
>
> thanks
>
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