From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 9 19:23:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D7837B424 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA64882; Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 19:22:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios Cc: Zaid Dashti , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hi In-Reply-To: <39BA6FB5.52179F7E@tdnet.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > Zaid Dashti wrote: > > > > Hi,,, > > i have some questions about Email accounts: > > 1- if i want create a Email account for some user should i adduser by > > typing a command (adduser) in unix ? > > Depends on which approach you are taking! > When playing with sendmail, chances are you'll have to add a system > account, anyway i no nothing about possibilities withou system account! That isn't quite correct. Sendmail is just a mail transfer agent, and doesn't care where the mail ends up, or if local mail has a system account (when configured for such). For local mail, sendmail simply passes it off to the system's local mailer, which typically saves it in /var/mail/{username}. You're completely free to replace the default localer mailer with something else that doesn't require system accounts, for example, I believe the Cyrus POP/IMAP daemon includes a local mailer that does this with sendmail. The only caveat is that if you change the default mailbox, your POP/IMAP daemon needs to know about the new location, too. Ken Bolingbroke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message