Hello Gopi,
On Sunday, June 29, 2003, Gopi Balasingam wrote...

> Hi there,
> After having installed SM and checking out it's feature list, I have q few
> question regarding a practical deployment approach:
> 1) The mail server POP/IMAP is installed on a separate server while the SM
> Webmail is to be installed on another server in a DMZ.

No... Check the config/conf.pl script, you can setup different
locations for server.

> In this case, do the mail users have to be recreated on the SM
> webmail server? How is the authentication handled here? Is it
> standard Uni*x /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow? Or can it authenticate
> directly against the IMAP server?

That depends on the IMAP server, and how you configure it. I use a mix
of /etc/passwd|shadow and mysql.

> 2) Do the users home directories have to created for webmail user on the SM
> server for the folders?

Again, depends on the IMAP server. Most of my users don't have home
directories.

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