making pop and smtp work with accounts

[Tyler Littlefield]

thanks. I think e3fs is chill with that. I'll take a look at the config.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler at tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: making pop and smtp work with accounts


> 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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