From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 13:54:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32121065675 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk) Received: from hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk (hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk [78.33.209.59]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0EB8FC17 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from demophon.fletchermoorland.co.uk (demophon.fletchermoorland.co.uk [192.168.0.154]) by hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o2BDsrkd023054; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:54:53 GMT (envelope-from paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk) Message-ID: <4B98F62D.9000100@fletchermoorland.co.uk> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:54:53 +0000 From: Paul Wootton User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091217) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <201003111316.o2BDGYLG047645@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <201003111316.o2BDGYLG047645@fire.js.berklix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on hydra.fletchermoorland.co.uk Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:54:59 -0000 Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> I really wanted to use Sendmail as a friend knows Sendmail fairly well >> and I have a Sendmail book, but what I am wanting is the ability to have >> mail for virtual users, ie I might have 4 admin accounts, >> admin@domain1.com admin@domain2.com admin@domain3.com and >> admin@domain4.com and want all the accounts to be independent of each >> other and not necessarily have a real UNIX user account. I know I can >> create 4 different admin accounts say admin1, admin2, admin3, admin4 and >> then use the "virtual users" table, but I can see that getting a little >> messy and from the end user's point they are going to have unusual login >> names. >> I know I can do this in Postfix, but is it possible in Sendmail? >> > > Yes its possible. I do that with sendmail for a friend's domain I host > Here's an anonymised real operational sample from my server with comment added > > ... > > PS I skimmed but didnt really understand Matthew's posting, (not > saying its right or wrong, just didnt grasp it), but I have sendmail > working fine for my @berklix.org & for a friend's @surfacevision.com > So Paul, you can use sendmail for this if you want. > > Cheers, > Julian > Thanks but unfortunately this really wont help me too much. My fault for not posting it before, but I currently have 9 domains (with a likely hood of another couple more being added), with an range from 5 to 15 different email accounts per domain, hence me thinking it might get a little messy with all the UNIX accounts and virtual user table. Cheers Paul