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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2000 02:10:52 -0700
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
To:        Michael Barnett <mbarnett@cais.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Password Distribution / Email
Message-ID:  <20000727021052.B87834@klapaucius.zer0.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007270022380.44073-100000@nargul.systems.cais.net>; from mbarnett@cais.net on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:23:38AM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007270022380.44073-100000@nargul.systems.cais.net>

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On 2000-07-27 00:23 -0400, Michael Barnett <mbarnett@cais.net> wrote:
> 
> We have a few ideas for getting pop to authenticate off of the database,
> but even if we do this, we will still have to maintain the password files
> for local delivery.  Has anyone been successful in running a mail server
> that does not contain the authoritative list of users, but gets this
> information from some central location?  (preferably from an sql
> database).

postfix (http://www.postfix.org/) can easily be configured to use
mysql for this.  It's also very fast and secure.

Greg
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