On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Orlando Andico wrote:
> Well that's true. But generally sendmail authenticates users via
> /etc/passwd, so you *still* need a local account, thus hitting the uid
> limit.
>
> However there are ways aroudn it, e.g. qmail or postfix thru ldap.
>
you could try other mailers... like cyrus, instead of procmail or the
standard local mailers which goes through /etc/passwd to check if there is
a user locally..
cyrus got its own list of virtual users, thus bypassing the 16bit UID
limit.
cyrus even got a neat imap daemon...
Regards,
-Mark
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