18 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] virtual mailboxes| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Lucio Crusca | Sep 27, 2011 10:39 am | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Sep 27, 2011 2:49 pm | |
| Lindsay Haisley | Sep 27, 2011 9:05 pm | |
| Lucio Crusca | Sep 28, 2011 1:05 am | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Sep 28, 2011 3:55 am | |
| Lucio Crusca | Sep 28, 2011 5:05 am | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Sep 28, 2011 5:30 am | |
| Alessandro Vesely | Sep 28, 2011 8:34 am | |
| Lucio Crusca | Sep 29, 2011 5:11 am | |
| Lucio Crusca | Sep 29, 2011 5:31 am | |
| Alessandro Vesely | Sep 29, 2011 11:13 am | |
| Lucio Crusca | Oct 2, 2011 2:20 am | |
| Alessandro Vesely | Oct 3, 2011 1:46 am | |
| Lucio Crusca | Nov 11, 2011 9:55 am | |
| Sam Varshavchik | Nov 11, 2011 4:38 pm | |
| Alessandro Vesely | Nov 12, 2011 2:09 am | |
| Lucio Crusca | Nov 15, 2011 9:18 am | |
| Matus UHLAR - fantomas | Nov 15, 2011 11:34 am |
| Subject: | Re: [courier-users] virtual mailboxes | |
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| From: | Lucio Crusca (luc...@sulweb.org) | |
| Date: | Sep 29, 2011 5:31:02 am | |
| List: | net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users | |
In data mercoledì 28 settembre 2011 14:31:21, Sam Varshavchik ha scritto:
That only works well until the mailboxes get moved to a network mount, and one day the server gets rebooted and, for whatever reason, can't bring up the mount. Then, the mail server starts happily delivering mail and creating mailboxes on the local disk, rather than holding everything in the queue until somebody fixes things.
Automatically creating mailboxes, if they don't exist, should not be a mail server's task.
Granted, and, moreover, you are free to choose what features your mailserver should have. However my humble opinion is that the average sysadmin is happy to have less things to do, and a feature like
AUTO_CREATE_MAILDIRS=1 # (default 0) BIG FAT WARNING: there are better ways!
I guess would be quite fast to implement, not harmful being defaulted to 0, and would save much work to many sysadmins, because in many small mailservers setups (e.g. local maildirs) that's the only thing to do in order to complete mail accounts provisioning (the rest can be achieved via authmysql + phpmyadmin).
I know there are many other mail servers out there that can fit the average small server needs, but I find Courier unique in that it offers everything you need, except this little thing. Others are only MTAs and need to be integrated with courier-imap anyway (because that's the best imap server ever, no way for others), so having to configure authdaemon anyway, the obvious following step is to drop the other MTA and have everithing done by Courier. If only...
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