From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 20:21:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0FC37B404 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3M3LYj55512; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:21:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:21:34 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: f3z Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail - virtual users? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020421211524.V55370-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG f3z wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hi, > > Is it possible to have sendmail store mail for users who dont have > accounts? (that could then be read by a pop daemon?) Sendmail has to be configured to use a different delivery service. By default, it will store mail in UNIX mailbox format in /var/mail/$USER, for valid instances of $USER only :-) You can configure sendmail to work with something like the Cyrus IMAPd (available in the ports collection) that does not require a system account for mail delivery. Cyrus supports users fetching their mail with IMAP and POP, and can auth with PAM, so you can auth against something like an SQL database. > I have read the man pages and found something called aliases but > that doesn't quite do it. Aliases are a way to map accounts to one or more other addresses. You could pipe an alias to an arbitrary file, I suppose, to store mail locally for non-existent users. It certainly wouldn't solve your auth problem, or provide POP delivery. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-3630 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message