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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Don Whiteside <freelist@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu>
To:        questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Justin Seger <shorty@iii.net>
Subject:   Re: POP Mailboxes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950918102202.28892G-100000@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199509151338.GAA00878@rainier>

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On Fri, 15 Sep 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote:

> > > Try the port of popper.
> 
> > How do I setup individual mailboxes once I install the popper?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> The same way you set up a "normal" mailbox.  popper simply reads the
> user's mail out of the mail spool.

Which means if you don't want them to have logon accounts, you'll want to 
set their shell to /bin/false and their home directories to /tmp. Never 
done it on my FreeBSD machine, but I suspect this also means that you'll 
need to add /bin/false to /etc/shells.



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