On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Andrew Falanga wrote:
On Jan 7, 2008 9:55 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Andrew Falanga wrote:
I have to admit that I'm not quite sure why no one has responded to me
about this one. If I'm not providing enough information or incorrect
information please tell me. It's quite important that this e-mail
system be working.
Well, I can try to help. In general that's what we'll all do, but we
have other things to do in our lives, too. (-:
Zeroth question: Why use virtual users rather than regular-old UNIX
users? The regular way requires much less configuration, after all!
Well, that is actually how I got things working. Now that Christmas is
past, the church staff is returning to work "full-throttle" and had to
have e-mail services. (About three weeks ago, the windoze system they
were running died.) As to why to use virtual users, we were wanting to
go that route because one thought is to give e-mail accounts to church
members who want them. I was thinking that a better way of doing that
would be through virtual users.
"One thought is to to give e-mail accounts to church members who want
them" - that's easy, just run the system adduser command!
In my opinion, fiddling with virtual users is not usually worth the
effort. (Now, if you have HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of users on one machine,
then let's talk!)
Basically - the above is a reason to use 'adduser', not a reason to use
virtual users! If I'm wrong, please clarify my understanding.
Ok, I will try that ASAP. I don't think that I'll get to it tonight (in
fact, I'm sorry for taking so long to respond to this but I couldn't take a
free minute at work today to respond). Also, since they're working now, at
least through POP, the pressure is off. However, in the near future, I need
to get IMAP and SSL working.
Dovecot IMAP just works (tm) if you use system users, for IMAP and POP3
SSL and everything else wonderful. Why fiddle with virtual users when
real users are just as good and easier to set up?
I agree with you. I only asked here because I was trying to use the
dovecot deliver program, as specified in that wiki page, and I thought
that since this applies to everyone using dovecot (mail delivery) you
all might know how I need to fix this.
Well, I'm not using the Dovecot LDA myself (right now, at least), and
another reply on this list explained that the same is true for many here.
Best of luck - in general my rule for systems is to keep them as simple as
possible. Virtual users can make things easier (like crazy massive user
integration across disparate systems), but if you have no reason to use
them just forget about them.
-- Asheesh.
--
Dry clean only.
