On 8/1/08, Carlos Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jorey Bump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I never liked the idea of creating system users just for email, although I >> did it for years. Even with unusable login shells, home directories can >> get >> pretty untidy and challenging to back up for mail purposes (although >> Maildir >> does help a bit, here). I wanted to both eliminate unnecessary system >> users >> and support additional authentication mechanisms in a unified way, so I >> switched to a Postfix/Cyrus IMAPd combination, using Cyrus SASL for >> authentication. It's not as easy as 'adduser bob', but it >> compartmentalizes >> things in a way that fits my brain better. I wish I could find something >> similar for FTP (none of the daemons I like seem to support Cyrus SASL). > > Thanks for that info. So you controls this account creation operation? > If you don't "adduser bob" in Linux, > which application do you interface with to create a virtual mailbox? <...>
I'm also still getting my brain rapped around the idea. I found the following article very informative, it even links to CGI scripts for administration: http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ Scripts and extra contributions to the above: http://workaround.org/moin/PostfixTutorialContributions Another app worth looking at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/ One other thing, I've heard rumours of the ability of postfix to automagically create the users mailbox. Hopefully someone else can shed light on that. -- Robert Spencer
