On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp ... the problem
> is accessing it via IMAP. If you have >64K users, how do you set
> permissions so that one user can not deduce the path to another user's
> directory and potentially read their mail?
Whew, I did some investigation on the issue. Looked at Courier-IMAP, an
alternative IMAP server to the UW-IMAP server. It clearly explains in
its documentation how you can setup thousands of virtual accounts
without requiring any more than just *one* UID.
Courier-IMAP has a link on the qmail web page, and seems to be written
independent of any particular mailer, so long as Maildir format is
supported (see safecat for adding Maildir format mailboxes to any
mailer).
> In the meantime, the EASIEST method is to simply use more than one server
> for READING email and using something to auto-direct the user to the
> proper server to read their mail.
The EASIEST method is to understand your IMAP server or get one that
works properly.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada
A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended.
-- brian moore
