[plug] Mail without /etc/passwd

[Grahame Bowland]

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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:34 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:32, Michael Hunt wrote:
> > Take a look at Cyrus IMAP. It will do POP3 as well as IMAP. I did once
> > setup cyrus to authenticate against a mysql database but I have forgotten
> > the steps to that now.
>
> Actually, you can do just about anything with most modern mail servers.
> E.g. postfix will get some or all tables out of an SQL database if so
> directed, or LDAP, NIS, etc... and of course each of those has bolt-ons
> galore. You can store your user data in your DNS if the mood takes you (ie
> if the lithium tablets stop working).

Not that we'd be thinking of a prominent western australian ISP obsessed with 
"ii" ? :-)

> There's a few tidbits in the PostFix FAQ (http://www.postfix.org/faq.html)
> and scattered around the web. Try googling for "postfix authenticate sql",
> you'll find HOWTOs for making Cyrus imapd and all of the pieces
> authenticate through SQL and sing in harmony.
>
> You can even do that with local users (-: brave boy! :-) using pam_mysql
> and similar adapters.

Would have to heartily recommend postfix as an email system. UWA used to be a 
sendmail shop for our "main" SMTP servers; when I started working their I 
realised the true horror of sendmail and switched us over to postfix. In my 
experience it's a very quick and easy transition, and easy to go back if you 
need to.

What do people use? Anyone like Exim or one of the sendmail derivatives like 
smail?

Cheers,
Grahame

- -- 
Grahame Bowland  / "If computers get too powerful, we can organise them
                / into a committee -- that will do them in" - Bradley
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