From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 14:49:59 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 09CC7106566B for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:49:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (acme.spoerlein.net [IPv6:2001:470:9a47::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AF68FC08 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (localhost.spoerlein.net [IPv6:::1]) by acme.spoerlein.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08BBB5CA9; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:49:58 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=spoerlein.net; s=dkim200908; t=1268318998; bh=+ixoSq3Plb48g5QVlOHOtRkAUI4q0YHYv7neS/PVRVU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:In-Reply-To; b=s6MZedbt2B0GcaxZI80lMwAm8ctINrrLjtiTgvVGvigjKGjnrjmReJdVh9tAL2lmr bHgAS/xW3F0M2BZUlALXcMEKhI5HwHWncu6JQESXuoSJk38+lGS/N6bzT/0irX+GxH 1pz9zp82fZCSnh/BolRdkERcXru3kL1OlZKazK4k= Received: (from uqs@localhost) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o2BEnvO7052065; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:49:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:49:57 +0100 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= To: Paul Wootton Message-ID: <20100311144957.GA51031@acme.spoerlein.net> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Wootton , "Julian H. Stacey" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <201003111316.o2BDGYLG047645@fire.js.berklix.net> <4B98F62D.9000100@fletchermoorland.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B98F62D.9000100@fletchermoorland.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Julian H. Stacey" 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 14:49:59 -0000 On Thu, 11.03.2010 at 13:54:53 +0000, Paul Wootton wrote: >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. > Use LDAP. That's what I did. Works fine with sendmail and dovecot, once you have it working, you will find out, that it's actually documented pretty decently. One of those things you always have to find out on hindsight :) Cheers, Uli