From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 4 20:58:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCDE216A4E6 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:58:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7966543D78 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 20:58:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from bravo.pjkh.com (bravo.pjkh.com [72.36.232.219]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058F513D522; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:05:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA38513CD57; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:05:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bravo.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91E213C80B; Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:05:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:05:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: White Hat In-Reply-To: <20061004203500.25860.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20061004160413.N18356@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <20061004203500.25860.qmail@web34402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: Virtual Users sharing main account X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:58:58 -0000 > I doubt if this is possible; however, I thought I would inquire anyway. > > Assuming a domain name of 'company.com', we want to add a group of users > who could send and receive mail using this domain name; however, we do not > want to give them shell accounts. They would access the system simply to > send or receive their email. I have SSL/TLS set up and working correctly. > At this time we also do not want to set up sub domains like: > 'sales.company.com' either, although it may come to that. > > I read through the Virtual documentation and I do not think it is > possible. Is that correct, or is there a way to accomplish it. Look into dovecot for POP access and postfix for SMTP access. Both allow virtual users either via flat files or via database lookups. If you want FTP, pure-ftpd can look at a database as well. So, yeah, you can do it. -philip