From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 3 19:12:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFAA16A475 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:12:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: from mailgate.kv.ukrtel.net (mailgate.kv.ukrtel.net [213.179.244.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F67F43D48 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:12:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.kv.ukrtel.net [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 67CE71AF522; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:12:00 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost.my.domain (170-16-207-82.pool.ukrtel.net [82.207.16.170]) by mailgate.kv.ukrtel.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAP414481DF00816E; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:12:00 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k53JBtde007142; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:11:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) Received: (from elisej@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k53JBtKd007141; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:11:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from a@zeos.net) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: elisej set sender to a@zeos.net using -f Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:11:55 +0300 From: a@zeos.net To: Erik N??rgaard Message-ID: <20060603191155.GA7106@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: Erik N??rgaard , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060603072410.GA4329@localhost> <002c01c686fa$001770c0$0d02afcb@louigi> <4481D02B.8050907@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4481D02B.8050907@locolomo.org> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r581 (FreeBSD) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can one user have more than one system mailboxes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:12:02 -0000 On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 08:08:43PM +0200, Erik N??rgaard wrote: > >> Can a user have more than one system mailbox? > >> > >> E. g., some ISP provides the next service: a client can make any number of > >> mailboxes for himself using web interface. > >> Almost all ISP are using UNIX. > >> So, how they do this? > >> Does that web interface create a new system user every time > >> I create a new mailbox? > >> > >> I have sendmail 8.13.6 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. > > Sorry, I missed OP. 1st: I doubt ISP's relies on unix accounts for mail. > Rather they likely have clients in an ldap directory and mail on some > database backend storage. > > 2nd: You can create an extra mailbox by adding a line to /etc/mail/aliases: > > mailbox_name: /path/to/mailbox_name > > then run newaliases. To let a user access the mailbox you need to set > filepermissions accordingly. > > Erik > -- > Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org > X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt > Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 1st: It is interesting. 2nd: Thank you very much. Elisej Babenko