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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Email accounts to go with Virtual Hosting - need advise
Howdy,
I'm very new to email on Linux, right now we're running the default sendmail
on RH 6.2. I have the basic system running, but now I'm not at all sure how
to do some of the fancier stuff. For instance:
We have several web sites on this server using IP-based virtual hosting.
Some of these sites need associated emails: "Contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" sort of thing. The domain names, of course,
point to various IPs on that server.
So I need some advise about how to run email accounts for virtual IPs with
sendmail. the first thing is a simple forward; I need everything that goes
to johndoe@virtualserver#4.com to be forwarded to this guy's personal email
address (he does not need to be able to send out, only recive). It seems
like it should be a matter of an entry in the /etc/alias file - is that
true?
Actually, you would be better off using the virtusertable for this. Add a
line similar to:
@virtserver4.com john
That will route all incoming mail going to any address @virtserver4.com to
the local email address of john
Also, is there a way to set up mail accounts, pop3 I guess, without setting
up a user accounts? We have some people we'd need to give pop3 access to,
but we really don't want to set up a shell, ftp, home dir etc. Just mail.
Any advise would be appreciated. I'm already reading the sendmail docs, so
don't tell me RTFM :-) If anyone knows of good articles on this kind of
stuff, please send me URLs.
First I would make a mailuser group and a /home/mailuser just to have as
pointers. Then to add the user:
useradd -d /home/mailuser -g mailuser -s /bin/noshell -M
Good Luck!
Warren
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