From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 09:17:41 2003 Return-Path: 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 9ED5F16A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:17:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smaug.rhavenn.net (rrcs-central-24-123-125-186.biz.rr.com [24.123.125.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFF4243F85 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:17:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@rhavenn.net) Received: from 10.0.0.26 (ip67-89-92-242.z92-89-67.customer.algx.net [67.89.92.242]) by smaug.rhavenn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB492A88F; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:32:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Henrik Hudson To: "yo _" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:17:49 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308191117.49505.lists@rhavenn.net> Subject: Re: POP3 user configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@rhavenn.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:17:41 -0000 On Tuesday 19 August 2003 10:45, yo _ wrote: > I'm setting up a POP3/SMTP server (going to use qpopper/sendmail) for my > community computer access center and i have little experience setting up a > pop3 server (i have more experience setting up a private smtp relay > server). > > My primary question is how can i set up user accounts strictly for POP3 > access without shell access, or even without the home directory set up. I > was wondering if maybe (luckily and convieniently) adduser had an option > for easy pop3 user set-up, but i didn't find any, then i thought that maybe > i'd make a shell script to do all the restrictions automatically. > > I was also wondering if anyone knew how to do that check first/send after > bit where users must first check their pop3 mailboxes before using the SMTP > server to send mail out (i want to prevent just anyone from the internet > from using the SMTP server). Any more comments/suggestions would also be > greatly appreciated. Thank all of you in advance! > > -Rian Hunter Hey Rian- IN order to not have system accounts, you should look into virtual mailboxes. I would personally recommend going with this setup: PostFix as the SMTP agent Courier IMAP as the IMAP, plus POP server MySQL as the virtual information store some docs I got from Google: http://www.high5.net/howto/ http://www.postfix.org/docs.html also has some good stuff The POP before send is a SASL setup, although I have never tried setting that up since I only mail from my internal network and don't need that. Hopefully that's gets you going in the right directions. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson listsNO@SPAMrhavenn.net "`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'" --Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy