On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:06:25PM -0500, Roach, Mark R. wrote: | I know this might be a religious matter, but is there a good reason for | maildirs to go in ~/Maildir?
DJB thinks that is the only way. | This seems to be the only way courier will | handle things, Yeah, unfortunately. You could either recompile it with a different setting, hack up the startup script to pick somewhere else to root the search, or use a symlink named ~/Maildir to point the the real location. | but I would like to be able to mount /var/mail from my | mail server on my other systems so I can read mail without imap being | involved (grep'ing, etc). Nice idea. | I see that with authuserdb, I can specify /var/mail for the Maildir, but | I would prefer to not have to keep a separate password database just for | imap. (I am currently using pam to authenticate against my ldap | directory). Hmm, is authuserdb a separate db or can it plug into LDAP? IIRC courier can authenticate against LDAP. | Does anyone have any suggestions on what "the one right way" to do | things is? should all mail be accessed via imap, should the mail server | mount the users' home directories, or some other, better option that I | am too dense to think of :) ? The Right Way is for the imap server to be as flexible as the MTA is. Unfortunately neither courier nor uw-imap are that flexible. (Actually, I think uw is, but it's compile-time config). (I haven't actually solved the imap problem myself, and have postponed it because I don't have any users using it) HTH, -D -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first. GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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