Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:36:23 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use Message-ID: <20071213183623.GA1085@brick.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <340a29540712130840s2e052f54ic027abbc9723e243@mail.gmail.com> References: <340a29540712121231p3524aa19u76fb867560915a32@mail.gmail.com> <20071212205137.GA1043@brick.slightlystrange.org> <47615752.6060800@gmail.com> <27022.67.100.188.210.1197563222.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> <340a29540712130840s2e052f54ic027abbc9723e243@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: > sounds like everyone is sold on dovecot. Great!. I've a few questions. I > went and looked it up on freshports.org and found the main web site. Can > anyone explain to me what problems they have with mail clients attaching? > See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients . This shows some interesting problems > and I'd like to know if everyone using dovecot sees these problems. I use mutt 1.4.2.3i, which works without problems. I have also used Thunderbird with it, as does my business partner, and spotted no issues there either. > > Second, how do programs like dovecot manage users? Does each user of the > e-mail system need to be a user of the FreeBSD system (installed locally)? As Gerard said, dovecot can handle virtual users. There are several ways to do this - probably the most scalable will be SQL and LDAP, although you can use passwd-file as well. There's some good documentation on the web site, particularly http://wiki.dovecot.org/Authentication. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHYXunixf5fBYiFmoRApMiAKCLpF/QHGz9HoxDmNH3EDKK9bwuFwCcDrQg nZZNuXlvsIgm3chXrYdlT3g= =sPeV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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