Setting up IMAP
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 8:58 pm
I only plan on supporting IMAP and requiring SPA (Secure Password Authentication) in Outlook Express.
How do I go about disabling (not nessecarily removing) sendmail and any SMTP service - I may occasionally use to fire simple newsletters to clients. This is not an option for anyone else. I will require all outgoing mail to be sent by their ISP SMTP (typical of sharedhosts).
I know you can use another SMTP other than locally, even in thin clients:
http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/CustomerCare/I ... etails.htm
It doesn't look like this would be possible with my high-speed provider; how does SMTP work locally? Is it because they have my IP and know who I am based on that I don't require SMTP authentication? Can I use this to send emails from my server?
I have a single IP address mapped to several domains, each domain will have several potential email addresses. Is there a way I can store each accounts email inside a folder that maps to that domain - if that made any sense.
Basically, it appears as though I have to store all email inside /var/mail but I'm curious how that works when several domains all store messages in that folder? Ideally storing emails in a DB like MySQL would be nice as I could latter develop my own email client in PHP and easily glob messages.
How do I go about disabling (not nessecarily removing) sendmail and any SMTP service - I may occasionally use to fire simple newsletters to clients. This is not an option for anyone else. I will require all outgoing mail to be sent by their ISP SMTP (typical of sharedhosts).
I know you can use another SMTP other than locally, even in thin clients:
http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/CustomerCare/I ... etails.htm
It doesn't look like this would be possible with my high-speed provider; how does SMTP work locally? Is it because they have my IP and know who I am based on that I don't require SMTP authentication? Can I use this to send emails from my server?
I have a single IP address mapped to several domains, each domain will have several potential email addresses. Is there a way I can store each accounts email inside a folder that maps to that domain - if that made any sense.
Basically, it appears as though I have to store all email inside /var/mail but I'm curious how that works when several domains all store messages in that folder? Ideally storing emails in a DB like MySQL would be nice as I could latter develop my own email client in PHP and easily glob messages.