Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:54:53 +0000 From: Paul Wootton <paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question? Message-ID: <4B98F62D.9000100@fletchermoorland.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201003111316.o2BDGYLG047645@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201003111316.o2BDGYLG047645@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> 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 > > ... > > 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 > Thanks but unfortunately this really wont help me too much. My fault for not posting it before, but I currently have 9 domains (with a likely hood of another couple more being added), with an range from 5 to 15 different email accounts per domain, hence me thinking it might get a little messy with all the UNIX accounts and virtual user table. Cheers Paul
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