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Subject: Re: maildrop & postfix
From: Ian C. Sison (ian.sqsr.com.ph)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 07:10:38 CST

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Andrew McNamara wrote:

> >i'd rather not modify poppers/imappers as it would basically be a bad idea
> >to branch out from the main development tree of these programs. The
> >problem really is in getting the users profile (passwd, homedir, quota
> >size, etc). For this i think i'd rather hack a pam module and a delivery
> >program for postfix...
>
> Fair enough - my virtual local agent hasn't had much review yet, so
> I'd suggest keeping a very close eye on it's behaviour, but it gets you
> away from the dependancy on /etc/passwd.
>
> Wietse also suggested an alternative - you could use the virtual table
> to map the real e-mail addresses to an intermediate form, and then an
> alias to map this intermediate form to a file alias. Delivery will be
> carried out with the ownership of the alias file, however.
>
> I still think you're going to have to make some modifications to your
> popper and imapper - at the very least to remove the dependancy on
> /etc/passwd. If they're well coded, the changes will be minor.

wouldn't putting in a new PAM module theoretically do the same thing?

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