[PLUG] ISP email server application

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Fri May 18 00:12:16 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:26:18AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Aaron Burt wrote:
> >On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:55:31PM -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> >>No DB for the mail spool, though I'm curious as to why that's a
> >>requirement.
> >
> >3. (pragmatic) They meant that they didn't want a standard
> >   one-login- per-mailbox system, but something more like what Cyrus
> >   does.
> 
> Dovecot+Maildir handles multiple simutaneous logins by one user 
> without any locking issues...

Yeah, and that's what I use on my little host.  But AFAIK you still need
to have a user account on the system for each mailbox.  If you have
10,000 mailboxes, and you have to add an account to every email server
each time you add a user, it gets a little unwieldy.




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