On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 16:42, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > I'm new to the qpopper program, so you'll have to forgive me if I overlook > something obvious. Anyhow, I have a domain "newdomain.com" that I'm about to > assign to my server, and now I want to set up e-mail addresses: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and so on... > How do I go about doing this? I don't have to add a new system account for > each of them, do I? (in the passwd file)
Mail first has to reach your system and get stored in mailboxes. Qpopper doesn't do this. Qpopper only allows users to fetch mail from mailboxes. To get mail into the mailboxes, you need a mail transfer agent (MTA) such as sendmail or postfix, and a mail delivery agent (MDA) such as procmail. Unadorned qpopper requires a native user per mailbox to own the mailbox, but there may be 3rd party patches that allow one to work around this. It sounds like you're just getting started in setting up a mail server, so you should go check out the support resources for whatever MTA and OS you're using. Qpopper is only an issue once you get the MTA working.
