[PLUG] ISP email server application

[drew wymore]

On 5/18/07, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --


I use Qmail +  VPopmail  and its worked well and can be integrated to use
LDAP for auth or you can create default vpop auth accounts that don't
require an actual system user account.