Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:06:13 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se" <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mail redirection Message-ID: <371C97E5.FED95478@softweyr.com> References: <01BE8B0C.E7182420.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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Thomas Uhrfelt wrote:
>
> On our network we have about 40-50 users on their own workstations ( a mix of
> Macs,Win95:s and NTs ). And as it is today, they themselves fetch/send the
> mail from our mailprovider ( pop3 & smtp ) at their own will. What I am
> trying to accomplish now is for the FreeBSD box to fetch all their mail (
> maybe 1-2 times an hour ) and act as a POP/SMTP server to the users, carrying
> their mail for them and sending in out to the mailprovider.
>
> Each person got their own password / uid on the mailserver so the FreeBSD box
> of course needs to know that information. My biggest concern is that I don't
> want to create "users" on the FreeBSD box.
I think the cyrus mail server uses it's own mailbox and account
information system. I can't check right now because I don't have a
CD-ROM handy and www.freebsd.org is off-line. You might be able to
do this with a combination of fetchmail to drag the mail off the
mail provider's server and cyrus to serve the mail to local accounts.
Why not just create local user accounts and disable them from logging
in? I recommend installing the nologin port/package, but I wrote it.
Just change the user's shell to nologin and they won't be logging in,
nor will they be able to ftp to the machine.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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