Jo Rhett wrote: > Gary Mills wrote: >> We've had excellent sendmail/cyrus integration for years, with >> 35,000 users. It's done by having all users in the NIS map on >> the mail server. No modification to sendmail is necessary because >> getpwnam() returns the passwd entry for the user. Users can't log >> in to the mail server, of course, because PAM rules prevent that. >> The same thing could be done with other user databases, such as >> LDAP. Why would you ever need a different form of integration? > > We've done the same by putting all user accounts into virtusertable with > the no-recursion option. > > That said, it does require something to take user accounts and export > them into virtusertable/nis maps/etc. So this approach is technically > superior to what you and I are doing. RTCyrus2 and RTCyrus3 send socket map queries to smmapd.c cyrus daemon to get information about mailbox existence and mailbox quota status in *real time* without any need for periodic exports. Methods based on periodic export are better if you expect longer cyrus imap outages and the mailbox list is "pretty stable". I have suggested such methods as superior for *MS Exchange* (on other forums). Virtusertable based solutions are not capable to check mailbox quota status *in SMTP session*. It is possible with socket map based solutions. -- [pl2en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi@xxxxxxxxxxxx : anfi@xxxxxxxx Home site: http://anfi.homesite.net/ ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
