Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:33:13 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> Cc: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@geekpunk.net>, Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>, Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrus vs. UW IMAP (was: Re: I Volunteer) Message-ID: <3D129E79.A32431EB@mindspring.com> References: <20020620191939.U1870-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>
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Lamont Granquist wrote: > Cyrus imapd is a real pain in the ass to administer local user accounts > with though. You mean that it doesn't integrate well with the UNIX credentials system. THe issue here is that Cyrus needs to be able to hook create/delete actions on accounts, and UNIX fails to provide a means of doing this. I look at this as a UNIX deficiency. You can actually get around it by using "pw" and utilizing the script hooks it has. The easiest real fix for this would be to write a PAM module to cause the UNIX users to authenticate against the Cyrus database. > The cyradm program is extremely deficient. Not a big issue, I think. Writing scripts to encapsulate it and be "less deficient" is really very trivial. > Its great if you > want to offer people imap e-mail without offering them shell access. For > local access, though, there's a higher administrative overhead. I'm back > to using the UW imapd even though I know it is a poorer codebase... I recommend you do not publicize the IP addresses of the servers, if they are net accessible outside your organization. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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