Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail and postfix

2007-08-25 Thread Christopher Chan

Quey wrote:

Rick,
I did not bother to read the guys second post once I got as far as 
outblaze as that said enough, however,  how can anything to do with 
vpopmail be OT ? I had a private email from Wietse  overnight showing me 
a work around, my only concern about postfix using mysql to auth user 
and get the dir for maildir how was it knowing/creating the users dir if 
not using any vpopmails utils adding users, since we do by direct INSERT 
into mysql where initially P/F would have no clue to its name where to 
put the mail, I have my answer so I don't need to carry on with this 
thread, however the point is vpopmail is a powerful pop3d, therefor 
getting "any" MTA to co-operate with it, I would have thought would be 
on topic, are you saying we can only discuss vpopmail and qmail related 
issues? Not being sarcastic,  just inquiring as why you are limiting 
discussions, I am fully aware of your alliances with qmail, is this the 
reason? As I would have thought the wider available usage the better, 
perhaps this is why google shows no help.


Authenticating the user should be the least of your problems. The real 
problem is trying to get postfix provided delivery agents to work. I do 
not bother. it is either hand off to qmail or use maildrop.


Setup 1) postfix + maildrop + courier-auth + vpopmail + mysql (no qmail 
local delivery therefore no dot-qmail)


point virtual_mailbox_domains  to /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
use virtual_mailbox_maps to look up users in mysql
set virtual_transport to maildrop (entry must be in master.cf)
limit maildrop transport to one recipient only.

The challenge will be getting courier-auth to compile against vpopmail 
and then getting maildrop to compile against courier-auth.




Setup 2) postfix + mysql + qmail + vpopmail + vdelivermail trick as 
listed on vpopmail postfix.txt file.


I did this differently but the above should work and is better for setup 
1 is a refinement over my first version of setup 2. the only changes 
will be the virtual_transport = vdelivermail and you get to keep 
dot-qmail capability.


I have not looked at a vpopmail + cdb backend but you are smart and 
should have no problems figuring that out.


Have fun.


Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail and postfix

2007-08-25 Thread Christopher Chan


 > has anyone actually got postfix to work with vpopmail using the 
current stable release?


I have and it would have been documented here if I had actually got 
round to completing it.


http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/vpopmail



Not that I know of.  Vpopmail is tightly integrated with qmail, and 
making it work with another mail server is probably easiest if you just 
start from scratch.


Certainly if you want to keep the qmail way of doing things.



This thread looks more like a sendmail vs. postfix rant to me...  It 
does not belong here.




If he had just keep his trap shut about sendmail versus postfix I would 
not have felt necessary to say anything about it since I know sendmail, 
postfix and qmail and I do not like people jammering about this is the 
best and the rest are crap when they all have their strengths and 
weaknesses.