On Jan 7, 2004, at 7:51 AM, Josh Endries wrote:
I planned on using MySQL to define the accounts and passwords (and basically everything). This is pretty easy with Postfix, but after running into actual delivery issues (mailbox doesn't exist), I'm not sure if I can do this the way I hoped. It could be I just don't understand something. We host email for dozens of virtual hosts, so I've been looking at Cyrus 2.2 also, and will start testing that soon for the vhosting capabilities. Woohoo! :)
Basically I'm wondering if I can have Cyrus look to the MySQL server for authorization. I know Cyrus looks to SASL, which in turn looks to MySQL (through auxprop), for authentication, and I originally thought I could do this with authorization also. I thought I read somewhere Cyrus IMAP didn't need UNIX accounts to exist, but there may have been a "with Kerberos" part in there, or something similar, that I didn't notice. I actually don't think I let the difference between the two auth's sink in enough at first. Now it looks like I still need a UNIX account for each user, which cramps the virtual host setup (I don't like the whole "user0014" method, but if I have no alternative...). Or maybe I should look into using LDAP or Kerberos, hmmmm.
I am currently using this solution: http://www.web-cyradm.org/
Although I am in the midst of hacking some more features into, it works as expected.
will
