By default exim and courier work on standard accounts in the passwd file. courier authenticates against pam. It also wants to see maildir mailboxes; so you'll want to set maildir_home in exim configuration. I believe newer courier can deliver to mbox but it's not efficient. I actually transitioned from courier to dovecot recently as dovecot is much more efficient handling large maildirs. If you are going to use maildir ensure that you have your /home on a file system that will handle plenty of inodes, symbolic links and lots of small files. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 6:47 AM Subject: making pop and smtp work with accounts > Hello list, > I've got a quick question; > I want to be able to make pop and smtp work with accounts. > I have it configured, but I need a username and password in order to > access it. I'm not sure how to add smtp users, or if there even is such > thing. > Is there a way to make exim4 and courier use shell accounts for mail, or > do they have their own type of account. > > Thanks, > Tyler Littlefield > Web: tysdomain.com > email: tyler at tysdomain.com > My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
