On 26 Nov 00 at 20:29, Ina Patricia Lopez wrote:
> hi!
> I want to serve virtual email hosting on my linux machine. im using
> redhat 6.2 and sendmail.
>
> say i have domain1, domain2 and domain3.
>
>
> 1. can i use /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow for my user entries? what is
> the max no of entry? can i go for as much as a hundred thousand users?
>
64K or roughly 65535 users
> 2. i tried to configure virtual email hosting via linuxconf. i added
> the 3 domains above. further checking i found that the system generated
> the ff:
>
> *sendmail.cf with these entries:
> CV mail.domain1.com
> CV mail.domain1.com
> CV mail.domain3.com
>
>
> * /etc/vmail with the ff: files.
>
> shadow.mail.domain1.com
> passwd.mail.domain1.com shadow.mail.domain2.com
> passwd.mail.domain2.com shadow.mail.domain3.com
> passwd.mail.domain3.com
>
> BUT with 0 entries.
>
> question1: how do i add users to these files??
I think you add it manually using an editor. Never done that before. I do
use 5.2 and 6.0 though. What I do use is create the user for that machine
and then use virtusertable (probably in /etc or /etc/mail dir) and add
[EMAIL PROTECTED] user1@localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED] user2@localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED] user3@localhost
Make sure you issue makemap to index the config table.
> question2: say i use Eudora, how it will authenticate? would it be via
> /etc/shadow or /etc/vmail/shadow.DOMAIN??
Hmm...using the above method, it authenticates user1, user2 and user3 at the
localhost
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