Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:56:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Thomas Uhrfelt <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD as a "mailfilter and/or edirector" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201355290.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BE8A62.761B20B0.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Thomas Uhrfelt wrote: > On our network we have about 40-50 users on their own workstations ( a mix of > Macs,Win95:s and NTs ). And as it is today, they themselves fetch/send the > mail from our mailprovider ( pop3 & smtp ) at their own will. What I am > trying to accomplish now is for the FreeBSD box to fetch all their mail ( > maybe 1-2 times an hour ) and act as a POP/SMTP server to the users, carrying > their mail for them and sending in out to the mailprovider. > > Each person got their own password / uid on the mailserver so the FreeBSD box > of course needs to know that information. My biggest concern is that I don't > want to create "users" on the FreeBSD box. You'll have to if you want mail delivered. You don't have to grant them a login, though; just set their shell to '/sbin/nologin' and they won't bother you. > Example: > > USER ---> passwd:1212 uid:1313 ---> FreeBSD Box ---> passwd: JIh3egd uid: > a012.... ----> The users normal mailaccount I don't understand your diagram, sorry. Can you clarify? > And while I am at it, at bootup of the FreeBSD box I get a message ( right > after the memory messages ) like this > > - Bad BIOS32 Service Directory! > > What is this? Your BIOS isn't providing some 32 bit services. This will mean that operations like retrieving the system memory size may give unreliable results. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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