Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:21:34 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: f3z <f3z@iprimus.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail - virtual users? Message-ID: <20020421211524.V55370-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <B8E9B91C.789%f3z@iprimus.com.au>
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f3z wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hi, > > Is it possible to have sendmail store mail for users who dont have > accounts? (that could then be read by a pop daemon?) Sendmail has to be configured to use a different delivery service. By default, it will store mail in UNIX mailbox format in /var/mail/$USER, for valid instances of $USER only :-) You can configure sendmail to work with something like the Cyrus IMAPd (available in the ports collection) that does not require a system account for mail delivery. Cyrus supports users fetching their mail with IMAP and POP, and can auth with PAM, so you can auth against something like an SQL database. > I have read the man pages and found something called aliases but > that doesn't quite do it. Aliases are a way to map accounts to one or more other addresses. You could pipe an alias to an arbitrary file, I suppose, to store mail locally for non-existent users. It certainly wouldn't solve your auth problem, or provide POP delivery. - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-3630 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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