[plug] fetchmail and postfix

[The Thought Assassin]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Christian wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:55:06AM +0800, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Christian wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:21:02PM +0800, russ wrote:
> > > > Does this mean that each user will need an account on the mail server?
> > > Of course!  How else did you plan on doing it?
> > There are several simple patches out there to make your smtp/pop daemon
> > authenticate via a database, via PAM, or via whatever.
> as far as I know, most mail servers assume each user has a separate mail
> spool file in the appropriate directory.  There's no reason why you
> can't do it another way (authentication and mail spool information
> stored in a database would be kinda neat in a lot of ways) but I haven't
> heard of any widespread implementations that do it this way.
I have. :) http://www.netd.co.za/mysql-mail is an example for qpopper and
exim using mysql for auth _and_ spool location.

> You would have to modify the mail server (or at least really hack
> their configurations) and the IMAP/POP servers and it would probably end
> up being more than simple patch.
No, it's a pretty simple patch, really. (unless you're using cucipop, but
of course if you go look at the source to try to patch cucipop, you will
never use cucipop again, anyway. :)

-Greg Mildenhall