Comments on: Virtual mailboxes with courier-imap and postfix

By: Dan Farrell

Dan Farrell — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:10:50 +0000

Thanks much for the very helpful write-up.

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By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:09:42 +0000

Hey Dan,

Just a quick note – took your/Steve Purcell’s advice and switched to Dovecot – got it all working great in the end with postfix running off the same authentication system.

Wrote a couple of bash scripts and its really easy to manage too :)

Thanks,
Matthew

By: Aidan

Aidan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:17:38 +0000

Made me smile to find your blog when searching for the answer to a postfix problem. It was #4 when I searched for ‘postfix virtual user database’. Anyway, hope things are going well. Funnily enough, this post answered my question ;-)

By: Dan North

Dan North — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:17:22 +0000

Hi Matthew.

Courier POP3 (and POP3/S) will operate in exactly the same way. I prefer IMAP because then the server always holds your email and your local mail client is just a copy. So you can use a webmail client (I use squirrelmail) if you can’t get to your usual computer, and you’ll still have access to all your mail.

In any event, I took Steve Purcell’s advice (a few comments above) and switched to dovecot. He’s a very smart man and dovecot is lovely. Its authentication module integrates really nicely with postfix which makes managing virtual user accounts a dream.