From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 15:25:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034E637B47F for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:15:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:01:39 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16zdRn-0005aX-00; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:01:35 +0100 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:01:35 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: f3z Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: sendmail - virtual users? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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 On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, f3z wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to have sendmail store mail for users who dont have accounts? > (that could then be read by a pop daemon?) I have read the man pages and > found something called aliases but that doesn't quite do it. The answer is, "yes," but you'll need to configure your local delivery for this. It's certainly possible to just tweak the local mailer flags to deliver mail as a single user - but you still need to teach sendmail how to figure out if an account exists or not. Since the pop server will also need some kind of authentication, how you go about this depends on the pop server. I believe someone has already responded suggesting adding nologin accounts - if you've got a small userbase, this is a perfectly feasable approach. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk printf 'cat\nhello world' | `sh -c 'read c; echo $c'` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message