/usr/home/user/Maildir

[jugstah]

I'm wondering..

I've tried to look through the qmailrocks documentation, even tried installing it to great success, but I have just one remaining question... what about support for Maildir in users' home directories?

[dschwab9]

There are no home directories. The qmailrocks install uses vpopmail, and all the users are virtual users.

[jugstah]

I guess this isn't for me then.

I'm a mutt user, some of my friends who log in also use mutt, and some are GUI junkies, no clue at the CLI.

I could always try installing without vpopmail

[Bookworm]

Why not just create them as virtual users as well? Is there some absolute need for them to have physical access to the email from shell - especially if they are GUI nuts?

BW

[jugstah]

Bookworm...

As I said, some of my users need physical access to the shell, and they also would like to have physical access to Mutt as well. Most of my users can just access their email via the web...but for the few and the hardcore, physical access is a necessity.

[airedale]

Why not just create a SymLink of the Maildir in their home directory?

[jugstah]

Have you tried that?

[Bookworm]

You could do that.

Here are your caveats.

1) the vpopmail stuff would have to be added with group read/write access.
2) the users would have to be added to the vpopmail group.

If 1 and 2 were met, then yes, it should work to do symlinks.

BW

[kjake]

Hi

I too am in a similar boat. I have a full-funcitoning qmail setup with system users (based on LWQ) using pine and mutt without additional IMAP access. But to avoid individual patching and hacking for anti-spam, rbllists, webmail access etc, I decided to try QmailRocks package. ut it seems that everything here is geared towards virtual users and domains. Is there anyway to modify it to work with system users so they can use it normal with the shell access as well as webmail access along with the great anti-spam features that QMR provides, without losing the security of folder access, user permissions, shadow file etc ?

thanks !

[Bookworm]

The key to using it for virtual users is in the Vpopmail system.

Read through the documentation in the package, as well as on the Inter7 web site. (http://www.inter7.com )

It's outside the range of our support, at least for now. (However, if you figure out the exact process to do it, I'm sure it can be added)

BW

[kjake]

Thanks for your replay BW. This is what I did after :
I reinstalled courier-imap with - ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --disable-root-check --with-ssl --with-authchangepwdir=/usr/local/libexec/authlib --with-redhat --with-authshadow
and vpopmail with : ./configure --enable-logging=p -enable-passwd=y

This should have allowed me to use squirrelmail with system accounts, I thought. Well, I could login fine with but on sending messages I got :
"Authentication failed. Server replied: 535 authorization failed (#5.7.0)".

The aim of this was to get a system user to receive and send mail from the web...

thanks !

K.

[Bookworm]

Thanks for your replay BW. This is what I did after :
I reinstalled courier-imap with - ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --disable-root-check --with-ssl --with-authchangepwdir=/usr/local/libexec/authlib --with-redhat --with-authshadow
and vpopmail with : ./configure --enable-logging=p -enable-passwd=y


If this was the actual configure script you used, then I can see where you had problems - your enable-password only has one hyphen.

BW