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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:05:23 +0100 (BST)
From:      Scot Elliott <scot@planet-three.com>
To:        Leif Neland <leifn@internet.dk>
Cc:        isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Only allow delivery of mail to users in aliases
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611120351.20516C-100000@uranus.planet-three.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980610221619.367A-100000@darla.swimsuit.internet.dk>

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You might want to look at the Cyrus pop server in the ports.  I installed
it once to have a play, and seem to remember it keeping its' users
seperate from /etc/passwd.

I'd be interested in knowing how well this works.

Yours.

Scot.



On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Leif Neland wrote:

> We have pre-created a /etc/passwd with plenty of users with names like
> u0001,u0002 etc.
> 
> When customers buy an account, this userid gets an "real email-adress"
> (like leifn) in a MySql base.
> 
> A script then creates /etc/aliases, radius database and a passwordfile for
> popd. (Users get internet access and a pop3-account).
> 
> Two questions: 
> 
> 1: Do these users need to be in /etc/passwd, or can qpopper use its own
> password file?
> 
> 2: If users need to be in /etc/passwd, how can we stop mail from being
> delivered to users only in /etc/passwd, not in /etc/aliases?
> 
> Leif Neland
> leifn@internet.dk
> 
> 
> 
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