[LUNI] virtual mail users

[Ramin K]

sten wrote:
> Hey, all;
> 
> I'm building out a new shared node for my personal domains; on the
> old node, I've been using Cyrus IMAPd, which gives me virtual users
> and a central mail database. I've had a few issues with Cyrus locking
> mailboxes, causing mail to be rejected, so I'm thinking I might like
> to try something new, but I really like not having all my mail in ~/,
> and not having to create a login account for people that I provide
> mail service to.
> 
> The only other option I've seen so far is Courier or Dovecot writing
> to a MySQL database, and I'm not terribly thrilled at the idea of
> relying on MySQL for mail delivery. Anyone got other suggestions, or
> rants/raves about dropping mail to MySQL?
> 
> Thanks! -sten
> 

I've heard good things about this project and they let you pick from a 
few dbs.
http://www.dbmail.org/index.php?page=overview

	I also believe, contrary to their site, that shoveling mail into a db 
in inherently impossible to scale, but for home/small business stuff you 
don't have to worry about that.

On my own system I use PostfixAdmin to manage domains, users, etc. with 
Postfix for delviery, Mysql for authentication, accounts, and domains, 
and Courier-imap as the backend. All domains are virtual so users don't 
have logins. Like Keith, mail is stored in /var/mail/$domain/$user

Ramin