From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 18:43: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AD737B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6135C43E3B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:42:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E4F1A6 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:42:56 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7R1h6N02490 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:43:06 -0600 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:43:06 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Single IP POP Boxs. Message-ID: <20020826194306.E1899@seekingfire.com> References: <00d501c24d69$0a6f5b10$6401a8c0@grant> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <00d501c24d69$0a6f5b10$6401a8c0@grant>; from grant@thenetnow.com on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:28:25PM -0400 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers 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, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:28:25PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently been made aware of a facinating feature on out Linux box > (which I did not set up). > > It seems that the box is set up with vpop3d, procmail and sendmail so that > there may be multiple POP users with the same name, example: > > joe@domain1.com > joe@domain2.com > joe@domain3.com > > These are NOT virtmaps, but rather real (or virtual) pop boxs made possible > by mapping the whole username, (i.e. joe@domain2.com). It appears that the > mailer uses the mailertable to map the domain to the correct Linux user > directory,m then procmail maps the mail to a file. Later, the user can log > in using a complete address (again, joe@domain2.com) and vpop3d will get his > mail from that directory. > > I have been googling my eyes out and can't find anytihng similar for > FreeBSD (4.4). There's something similar for qmail (and PostFix these days, apparently) by Inter7: http://inter7.com/vpopmail/ -T -- Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. - Orange Catholic Bible To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message