making pop and smtp work with accounts

[Kerry Hoath]

By default exim and courier work on standard accounts in the passwd file.
courier authenticates against pam.
It also wants to see maildir mailboxes; so you'll want to set maildir_home 
in exim configuration.
I believe newer courier can deliver to mbox but it's not efficient.
I actually transitioned from courier to dovecot recently as dovecot is much 
more efficient handling large maildirs.
If you are going to use maildir ensure that you have your /home on a file 
system that will handle plenty of inodes, symbolic links and lots of small 
files.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 6:47 AM
Subject: making pop and smtp work with accounts


> Hello list,
> I've got a quick question;
> I want to be able to make pop and smtp work with accounts.
> I have it configured, but I need a username and password in order to 
> access it. I'm not sure how to add smtp users, or if there even is such 
> thing.
> Is there a way to make exim4 and courier use shell accounts for mail, or 
> do they have their own type of account.
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> Web: tysdomain.com
> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
> My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
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