From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 14 23:42:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2851C16A524 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from unixusers.co.uk (unixusers.co.uk [82.133.118.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B6243D2F for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.jenkins@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (win1 [192.168.0.3]) by unixusers.co.uk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0ENghHq010301; Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:43 GMT (envelope-from david.jenkins@gmail.com) Message-ID: <41E858F4.703@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:44 +0000 From: David Jenkins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric F Crist References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: this IMAP stuff is kicking my @$$... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 23:42:50 -0000 Eric F Crist wrote: > Hello list, > > I have to admit that, despite many years of experience using FreeBSD, I > am completely lost. I've looked for all the how-to documents, and > general documentation I can, and I don't find it a whole lot of help. > Here's what I've got going, and what I hope to achieve. > > First off, I have a running sendmail server with qpopper. Sendmail is > configured for authentication, and it all uses the system user/pass > database. I don't currently have SSL/TLS installed, but I've done it > before, and it's not a huge concern right now. > > What I need is a slightly different setup for my users. As I mentioned > in an earlier email, I want to install an IMAP server. From what I've > gleaned from various sources, I need to change from mbox format to > maildir. Is this correct? Also, I've come to the understanding that > IMAP uses a totally different internal MTA, and thus a different user > database? > > Can someone point me in the right direction? I've kinda got > courier-imap installed from ports, but I can't log in. First off, how > can I configure courier-imap to use the system accounts? If I can get > this, I can probably work through the SSL/TLS for IMAP, amongst other > things. > > Does anyone have a similar setup they can share their experiences about? > > TIA > > _______________________________________________________ > Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" > Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson Not too sure about Courier and system accounts. I may be wrong but I think it's for virtual users ... I tried it a long time ago and configured it to use a MySQL database for the user accounts/passwords. I currently use dovecot (/usr/ports/mail/dovecot). It's very very fast, and highly stable and secure. It support mbox or Maildir, POP3/IMAP and SSL. As an example, using standard IMAP with Maildir, I have a few folders with thousands of emails in and I can view anyone in less than 0.5 seconds. If you just want to use system accounts then I don't know of a better all round IMAP server. Cheers, David