On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 22:44 +0100, Magnus Bäck wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 15:55 CET,
> Varun <varun_saa@...> wrote:
>
> > Basically I have my mailserver working using :
> >
> > http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html
> >
> > Now I would like to improve on it by using :
> >
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual_postfix_mysql_quota_courier
> >
> > One doubt I have is do I have uninstall procmail & fetchmail
> > that I used in the first place.
>
> In any case you obviously don't have to remove those tools from your
> system, but since procmail does not really support virtual users you
> can't use it anymore unless you perform some ugly tricks.
>
> > If yes then how the functionality of both is achieved then ?
>
> fetchmail, on the other hand, is completely independent from how Postfix
> delivers and stores the messages. fetchmail collects messages via
> POP/IMAP and delivers them to certain addresses via SMTP (typically).
> That behaviour won't be affected.
>
> > And why do we call it virtual users ?
>
> Because they are not real system users. They are only known to the mail
> system and cannot log in otherwise.
>
> What problem are you trying to solve?


Nothing yet.

Just wanted a little clarification before
I started.

Thanks

Varun