Hello all,
I have deployed a couple of 8.0b7 servers (not an expert here though, the contrary tbh) and I must say I'm pretty happy with it. That said, these were all server+gateway installations, where the focus was on hosting a single domain for e-mail, mostly, purposes. A couple of questions for some very specific scenarios, hope someone can respond.
1) With that said, I've got an old installation of FreeBSD, serving some 100 mailboxes via POP-3 (only) with postfix/amavisd. I am interested in moving this to 8.0b7. Since I've got an active directory installation, I was wondering whether I could create the users on postfix for the purpose of (a) avoiding to create users by hand and (b) for keeping user password changes in sync with the respective ones in sme (ie, user changes pass on AD, the same pass will be used to retrieve via POP-3 from SME). Which is the state of things? Not working at all, alpha, beta, almost stable?
2) On another scenario, a domain was hosted, say domainA.tld. Now, we will be moving to a new domain, say domainB.tld, but for at least a couple of years we want keep the old domain. We'd like to have mail sent to user@domainA.tld go the same mailbox as user@domainB.tld. In essence, it's the same user. After reading around I understand that this is what happens by default on SME (good thing for me), is that correct? This way, I can create a single outlook express account to send and retrieve for user@domainB.tld, and when receiving it will receive effectively ALL email, correct?
3) Final question. I believe that at some point, perhaps introduced by SME 8.0beta, something changed and SME required some sort of secure authentication in order for a local client to receive email. Can I have
ONLY the local clients send mail, without any authentication at all? Or have the local clients only send mail using plain cleartext authentication?
My apologies for the length of the mail message, looking forward to b8 and doing any kind of bug reporting for the project
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