Postfix/Cyrus/etc help

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 07:38, Neil Schelly wrote:

> Any particular advantage to mailscanner over amavis?  I'm not familiar 
> with it
> except what apt-cache tells me.  Dovecot also sounds interesting, but 
> we're
> making heavy use of public folders here, so that means Cyrus is really 
> the
> only option.  I'd prefer Courier otherwise.

Yeah, Cyrus is your only real option.  And it's fine, it's just too bad 
you can's specify a MailDir storage backend for Cyrus.  To clarify, I'm 
running Courier myself and trying Dovecot as a replacement for that, 
not Cyrus.  The Maildir formats are similar enough there's a conversion 
script.

> So in other words, you think LDAP is too much?  The LDAP integration 
> is kind
> of an important part of this. Or will it work with "real unix users" 
> more
> invisibly so long as PAM/NSS is setup with LDAP already?

PAM would be a good approach.  As far as I've found things like 
procmail, forwarding, vacations, custom processing (think scripts that 
strip out attachments, etc.), webmin management, are all 
straightforward when there's a real unix user to bind to, but are 
"Maybe"s or "Some guy has a patch"s  when you have either a MySQL or 
LDAP back end.  Of the two LDAP I think is the better solution, but 
support for it is still in progress with many products.

-Bill
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