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Re: Setting up virtual users on Courier IMAP?



Has anyone tried setting up virtual users with courier? I thought it was a 
fairly popular IMAP server ...

Any suggestions would be really appreciated!

Thanks!

Jen

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:47:46AM -0800, jennyw@dangerousideas.com wrote:
> Any tips on getting Courier IMAP to use virtual users? I'm using Debian 
> Woody with Postfix as my MTA.
> 
> My understanding is that to use virtual users, you need to setup userdb 
> as the authentication method. I did this by changing the authdaemon rc. 
> This works for logging in to the IMAP server, but, unfortunately, I 
> cannot get maildrop to deliver to mailboxes. I think this is because the 
> packaged courier-maildrop (or maildrop) is not compiled with userdb 
> support. So I recompiled but when I tried "./configure --with-db=gdbm 
> --enable-userdb" it says it can't find gdbm, even though libgdbm.so is 
> in /usr/lib (right next to libdb.so; the weird thing is that --with-
> db=db works).
> 
> Before I go and try recompiling everything from source I thought I'd ask 
> if anyone had any ideas on how to get the packaged pieces to support 
> virtual users. Also, if I do recompile, do I need to recompile 
> everything, or just the courier-authdaemon? It'd be nice if I could just 
> compile a piece ...
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jen


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