[PLUG] ISP email server application

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri May 18 15:01:48 UTC 2007


On Thu, 17 May 2007, Aaron Burt wrote:

>> 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.

I've only used Dovecot with system accounts (actually, PAM), but I'm 
pretty sure it can use user/password stored in LDAP or PostgreSQL. I 
don't think a login account is a requirement.

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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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