Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:40:32 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev <joy@urc.ac.ru> To: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email without an account Message-ID: <36AC2E00.B195BE3F@urc.ac.ru> References: <4.1.19990124193708.00a1daf0@firebat.wolfepub.com>
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Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am running 3.0-stable and I am in charge of the email. Could someone
> tell me the accepted way to provide email? I understand anyone with an
> account or an alias to an account can receive email, but what about
> providing *virtual* email accounts? For example, email to a virtual user
> would only take space in the mail directory and the owner of the account
> could only connect via POP3. The username and password files would be (or
> should be) separate from the system password files.
>
> This would allow one account to have say 3 to 5 username and password
> protected email accounts with only one *real* system and/or dial-in
> account. Is there a generally accepted way to do this?
>
Look at ports/mail/cyrus. It provides POP3 and IMAP, allows using external
authentication programs (the one distributed with cyrus check the UNIX passwd
file) and has its own user space (supports quotas as well). It requires to
change the local mailer in sendmail configuration from mail.local to cyrus
(couple of lines in an .mc file) and stores mailboxes in its own format,
which is not UNIX mailbox compatible. It provides very good system for
setting users' permissions on mailboxes.
Because of its own mailbox format, it is not so easy to migrate to Cyrus from
another mail system, but starting from scratch is easy.
I'm using Cyrus more than half a year, and have no problems with it after its
installation.
--
Konstantin V. Chuguev. System administrator of Southern
http://www.urc.ac.ru/~joy/ Ural Regional Center of FREEnet,
mailto:joy@urc.ac.ru Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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