From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 25 00:41:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA11703 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (rnocserv.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA11691 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Received: from urc.ac.ru (y.urc.ac.ru [193.233.85.37]) by rnocserv.urc.ac.ru (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25096; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:40:33 +0500 (ES) (envelope-from joy@urc.ac.ru) Message-ID: <36AC2E00.B195BE3F@urc.ac.ru> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:40:32 +0500 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Southern Regional Center of FREEnet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Hagerty CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email without an account References: <4.1.19990124193708.00a1daf0@firebat.wolfepub.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message