[Kroupware] Web interface frontend

[Lutz Badenheuer]

Hi Martin, 

Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 11:34 schrieb Martin Konold:
> Lutz Badenheuer wrote: 
> > internal mail storage. It just does not login via IMAP to read
> > mail, but instead directly reads the Maildir. This avoids forcing
> > data over
>
> This basically means you must setup unix users which we do not
> like. IMAP/Email users shall not get a unix account in our setup.

I have read the architecture paper, and I know that system accounts 
are not wanted. :) 

I didn't know that my english was SO bad. No, sqwebmail does NOT need 
a system account for any user. It is designed to work with Courier 
IMAP, both support pure virtual accounts similar to Cyrus. The simple 
thing that has to be done for virtual user is to take a username and 
resolve it to the attributes "userPassword" and "homeDirectory". It 
does not make any difference for Coutier's MDA and Courier's MUA 
(sqwebmail, pop3d, imapd) whether this info is resolved by 
/etc/passwd (this would be a system account) or any other sort of 
database (this includes LDAP). 

Think of sqwebmail as just another MUA with virtual account support. 

There is only one problem with sqwebmail: it has to run on the same 
host where the (virtual) users Maildirs live, or use another way to 
access that file system. 

Possibly you may have a look at http://www.inter7.com/sqwebmail/ or 
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/toaster/ which is a setup for 
FreeBSD, qmail, Courier IMAP and sqwebmail using pure virtual users. 
I ported it do Debian recently... 

Kind regards, 
Lutz 

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