Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:43:06 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Single IP POP Boxs. Message-ID: <20020826194306.E1899@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <00d501c24d69$0a6f5b10$6401a8c0@grant>; from grant@thenetnow.com on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:28:25PM -0400 References: <00d501c24d69$0a6f5b10$6401a8c0@grant>
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:28:25PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have recently been made aware of a facinating feature on out Linux box > (which I did not set up). > > It seems that the box is set up with vpop3d, procmail and sendmail so that > there may be multiple POP users with the same name, example: > > joe@domain1.com > joe@domain2.com > joe@domain3.com > > These are NOT virtmaps, but rather real (or virtual) pop boxs made possible > by mapping the whole username, (i.e. joe@domain2.com). It appears that the > mailer uses the mailertable to map the domain to the correct Linux user > directory,m then procmail maps the mail to a file. Later, the user can log > in using a complete address (again, joe@domain2.com) and vpop3d will get his > mail from that directory. > > I have been googling my eyes out and can't find anytihng similar for > FreeBSD (4.4). There's something similar for qmail (and PostFix these days, apparently) by Inter7: http://inter7.com/vpopmail/ -T -- Some lies are easier to believe than the truth. - Orange Catholic Bible To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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