[TriLUG] Email server

[rasch at raschnet.com]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:26:45PM -0400, rasch at raschnet.com wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:20:15PM -0400, Michael Thompson <thompson at easternrad.com> wrote:
> > I remember using something called vpopmail with a qmail server, allowed
> > you to create virtual accounts with a web based admin.  IIRC I had to
> > download qmail, vpopmail and the web client separately.
> 
> Both qmail and courier-mta provide relatively easy virtual-hosting.
> Courier-mta [http://www.courier-mta.org] can maintain a database of
> users in a DBM file, MySql, LDAP, real-uid's or all of the above.  Most
> MTA's can probably do this at this point (everyone here loves postfix,
> with which I have no experience). 

Clarification:

You asked specifically about POP3, which is provided by the courier-pop3
daemon (and IMAP by courier-imap) which interfaces with the virtual user
databases mentioned above.  Any MTA could deliver to these mailboxes
directly, or with a bit of scripting to make the appropriate aliases.

David
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