[COLUG] virtual mailboxes: procmail vs maildrop

[Rob Funk]

Scott Merrill wrote:
> I've been using Jim Seymour's tips:
>    http://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/postfix-anti-UCE.txt
> and have been super pleased.

That looks and sounds vaguely familiar, but I'll have to read through it 
more closely.  If nothing else it looks like it'll help me comment main.cf 
a bit better.

> In what way is HastyMail not integrating well with PostfixAdmin?

Just from a user interface standpoint.  Users can't change their passwords 
(or forwarding) from within the same login session in which they read their 
mail, and the look is totally different too.  It seems kind of clunky to 
say, "Click here to login and read your mail, but click over here to login 
to a different interface and change your password."

> Are you allowing / encouraging your users to use the Postfix Admin tool?

I'd like to encourage (or at least enable) them to change their passwords, 
and at the moment Postfix Admin is all I have for them to do that.
(On the other hand, the passwords they pick are invariably far worse than 
what I'd assign them.)
There are also a few I'd like to give admin privileges over their domain.

>   And the vacation and password management from Postfix Admin
> are both facilitated by a SquirrelMail plugin.

SquirrelMail seems to have great capabilities and a real community, but I'm 
not very confident in SquirrelMail's code security.  That trumps my minor 
user-interface issues.

That reminds me... as far as procmail vs maildrop vs postfix-virtual, I 
trust the security of Wietse's coding more than that of the Courier people, 
and their coding more than Stephen van den Berg's decade+-old code/design.

> * I can move the VENDOR email distribution early in the mail delivery
> process, and let Postfix do most (all?) of what my procmail recipe does
> by way of a custom transport in /etc/postfix/master.cf.

I'd add the "consider" phrase to this one too.  :-)

> Thanks again for all the great commentary.  I might've taken this to the
> postfix users mailing list, but Wietse would've given a terse reply that
> would have generated more questions than it answered!  =)

Hey, generating more questions can be a good thing....
Anyway, I've gained some insight here too.

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