Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 22:11:55 +0300 From: a@zeos.net To: Erik N??rgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can one user have more than one system mailboxes? Message-ID: <20060603191155.GA7106@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4481D02B.8050907@locolomo.org> References: <20060603072410.GA4329@localhost> <002c01c686fa$001770c0$0d02afcb@louigi> <4481D02B.8050907@locolomo.org>
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On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 08:08:43PM +0200, Erik N??rgaard wrote: > >> Can a user have more than one system mailbox? > >> > >> E. g., some ISP provides the next service: a client can make any number of > >> mailboxes for himself using web interface. > >> Almost all ISP are using UNIX. > >> So, how they do this? > >> Does that web interface create a new system user every time > >> I create a new mailbox? > >> > >> I have sendmail 8.13.6 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. > > Sorry, I missed OP. 1st: I doubt ISP's relies on unix accounts for mail. > Rather they likely have clients in an ldap directory and mail on some > database backend storage. > > 2nd: You can create an extra mailbox by adding a line to /etc/mail/aliases: > > mailbox_name: /path/to/mailbox_name > > then run newaliases. To let a user access the mailbox you need to set > filepermissions accordingly. > > Erik > -- > Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org > X.509 Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/8D03551FFCE04F0C.crt > Key ID: 69:79:B8:2C:E3:8F:E7:BE:5D:C3:C3:B1:74:62:B8:3F:9F:1F:69:B9 1st: It is interesting. 2nd: Thank you very much. Elisej Babenko
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