On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:30:51 +0000 WipeOut <wipe_out@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My reason was to make it possible for a user with the email address
> "first.last@xxxxxxxxxx", which is out company standard convention for
> email addresses, to log into their mail box with "first.last".. That way
> they don't get confused about their email address and user name (as
> users often do).. These users do not log into the system shell as they
> are only for mail..
> Is that a good enough reason?
i have done such a setup using exim 4 (an alternative MTA),
courier-imap (an alternative pop3/imap server), with email
account descriptions described in a common PostgreSQL
database. no local accounts needed, postgres describes
everything -- email account names, passwords, locations
of Maildir spools, everything. it's at a client site, the client
even feeds logins and passwords to their Radius server with
the PostgreSQL database.
it's a little work to set up, but has a lot of nice properties,
and the local user account issue is skirted in its
entirety. i'm sure it's feasible with other modern MTAs
and IMAP servers (i'm pretty sure i could get most of this
functionality with Cyrus instead of Courier, for example.)
richard
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