Mailing List Archive: first contact...

Hi!

I am a new french user of exim (so, excuse my poor english...).
Just two little questions (to begin):
1. I would like to use exim with user account especially created for it.
I us the command "useradd -g mail -p my pass -s /bin/false user1".
I would like no create the home directory (/home/user1) because it seem not
to be essential and i run 200 to 300 mail account on the server..
But exim don't recognize the new user (in the log it say that it didn't stat
the home directory...).
Is there a solution to correct this problem?...

2. I would like to propose my user to see mails with a webmail. This
solution need's an IMAP server.
Is it exim compatible?
Is there a specific solution for exim...

Thank's a lot and have a good day.

E.Bullier

Cellule Internet EAI wrote:
> Hi!
<skipped question one because it's been answered already>
>
> 2. I would like to propose my user to see mails with a webmail. This
> solution need's an IMAP server.
> Is it exim compatible?
> Is there a specific solution for exim...

Exim can write messages to several mail formats, including mbox and
maildir.

<off-topic beyond here, but perhaps of interest>

An imap server is a separate server, usually called imapd. I personally
like courier-imap (with sqwebmail as a webmail server). It requires that
you compile exim with maildir support.

sqwebmail is really nice, as it talks directly to the maildir folders,
using the same libs as the imap server, so it's not an imap client per se.

courier-imap is super-fast and lightweight, and secure. Both can be
found at http://www.courier-mta.org/

-g

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