Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:16:34 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Paul Wootton <paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question? Message-ID: <201003111316.o2BDGYLG047645@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:13:21 GMT." <4B98C241.8090400@fletchermoorland.co.uk>
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> I really wanted to use Sendmail as a friend knows Sendmail fairly well > and I have a Sendmail book, but what I am wanting is the ability to have > mail for virtual users, ie I might have 4 admin accounts, > admin@domain1.com admin@domain2.com admin@domain3.com and > admin@domain4.com and want all the accounts to be independent of each > other and not necessarily have a real UNIX user account. I know I can > create 4 different admin accounts say admin1, admin2, admin3, admin4 and > then use the "virtual users" table, but I can see that getting a little > messy and from the end user's point they are going to have unusual login > names. > I know I can do this in Postfix, but is it possible in Sendmail? Yes its possible. I do that with sendmail for a friend's domain I host Here's an anonymised real operational sample from my server with comment added /etc/mail/virtusertable hostmaster@sparedomain.com hostmaster hostmaster@www.sparedomain.com hostmaster # I take the hostmaster cos hes not competent to. friend-local-acc-on-my-host@sparedomain.com sparedomain-default # friend-local-acc-on-my-host@ is redundant as # done by default, but left for clarity. # could also go to secretary-of-friend@anywhere-else.com # example@sparedomain.com some@where_else @sparedomain.com sparedomain-default # this collects all of # friends-new-colleague-he-hasnt-told-me-about@sparedomain.com # random-guess-by-spammer@sparedomain.com @www.sparedomain.com sparedomain-default # divert any mail re friends web site to the friend. /etc/mail/aliases: # switchable choice depending if I POP serve the friend or forward. sparedomain-default: friend@some-other-domain.com # sparedomain-default: friend-local-acc-on-my-host PS I skimmed but didnt really understand Matthew's posting, (not saying its right or wrong, just didnt grasp it), but I have sendmail working fine for my @berklix.org & for a friend's @surfacevision.com So Paul, you can use sendmail for this if you want. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text not quoted-printable, HTML or Base64 http://www.asciiribbon.org Old 20s expire 30 6 2010 http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/twentyv/
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