Matt Hyclak wrote:
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:08:18PM -0600, Johnny Hughes enlightened us:
My How-to doesn't cover Courier because it has it's own special mailbox format and does not use normal Linux users. Dovecot does use normal Linux users and the standard maildir format.
I think you mean Cyrus. Courier can use regular linux users with authpam, authpasswd, or authshadow. It uses the Maildir++ format which extends the standard Maildir, but is completely interchangable. See http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/README.maildirquota.html
Matt
This was my confusion also, learning the Cyrus/Courier differences. Many of the How-To I found used Cyrus but I could also find many who said Cyrus was evil. In trying to see what it was doing right or wrong when trying to do the setup and I would say it was cryptic at best to me.
As a side, I meant no disrespect for what you left out of your How-To Johnny, I think I found a response as to why you did it in answer somewhere else and that seemed reasonable. I do suppose the only true way to make this work.. is to learn each piece and make it work for me instead of hoping for a step by step to get me going quicker. Sometimes it's just nice to be a bit lazy with the new things, it's quite a deal going from Sendmail to something else as it is :)
Thanks.
Brent