On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 12:24:00AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Ken Chew wrote: > > > Also would it be possible to create email account without actuall adding > > user account on the system. Currently what we do is 'adduser' for every > > user account. Is this necessary? > > > > Thanks! > > Personally, I used Exim but I support customers that use sendmail and I > have used smail extensively in the past. The problem with pop3 is the > username/password login that must happen to collect mail. You pretty much > have to have a passwd entry but you do not need a home directory or a > shell. You can set the home dir to /dev/null and the shell to /bin/false.
sounds like the way to go > Exim is the sweetest emailer ever to grace the surface of my disks. See > http://www.exim.org for more details. Sendmail is very versatile in many > ways but is very stupid in others. A lot of mail queued to a site that is > "off the air" can really bog queue processing. qmail is OK but exim's > filter spec can make such things as procmail obsolete. Virtual domains are > trivial with exim too. Well I will agree that exim is GREAT and easy to ocnfigure... I have had exim working for a while and decided that I no longer wanted "| procmail " in my .forward....I wanted to set exim up to use procmail as its MDA....didn't take long at all... (Yes I still use procmail...because I LIKE procmail...and if I switch MTAs chances are I can still use my same rules) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"