From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 5:46:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.94.6.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECF237B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 05:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA71541; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:43:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3AED5E35.A794F1EE@wmptl.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:44:37 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Educatee Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: am I able to create user email account using sendmail or postfix? References: <3AEB5450.411BBD19@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Educatee wrote: > > I was thinking to setup a small mail server that could have a few user > accounts for my non profit organization. My FreeBSD4.2 is connecting to > the internet directly. Can sendmail or postfix let me create user email > address? > > Thank you. I am still learning on the mail services in FreeBSD. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Yes, add a user to the system. Typically I would add a user with a 'dummy' shell, and no homedir if all they were to have access to is email. Also, you must have DNS setup properly for internet-email; DNS more important, as it's the key to the whole user@domain idea. Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://home.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message