On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> You're getting warmer!
>
> 1st, this *is* the different MDA - I've switched to this from sendmail
> because I know at least 3 people have gotten it working with Postfix.
nope, this is the different MTA (Mail Transport Agent). procmail id the
MDA (Mail Deliery Agent)
I use both sendmail and postfix on various systems, but am by no means a
guru.
> I noticed this in main.cf:
>
> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
> #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
I'm guessing something along those lines. Before I sent you the email
below, I checked the procmail manpage. I couldn't tell exactly what the -a
switch does for you. I was hoping there was an obvious way to specify the
spool file, but I couldn't see it. the -p switch looks promising though.
Have you tried the mailhelp list at moongroup.com? I'm a bit surprised you
can't get this info fromtt he vmail people - if you ask me they should
know.
sorry I can't be more help than that. I'd like to know how it turns out
since I currently use the silly joe1 joe2 joe3 account schem to handle all
my joes. It does suck. Good thing it's just for friends.
charles
>
> Does that have anything to do with what you were talking about? Should
> I use the one that's commented instead of the one that is currently
> uncommented?
>
> At 11:26 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi Jonathan
> >
> >Ok, I can't solve your problem but like to think I can lead you down the
> >right path.
> >
> >The first thing you need to understand is that postfix (your MTA) does
> >not deliver your mail. Your MDA does - most likely procmail.
> >
> >In your main.cf you will find two parameters that are related to this,
> >most likely with these settings:
> >
> >mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
> >mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
> >
> >So, I think you want to look into the procmail options. postfix provides
> >all the necessary info needed to specify the sool file, in your case
> >/var/spool/vmail/$EXTENSION/$LOCAL, you just need to figure out how to get
> >procmail to use it :)
> >
> >Or try a different MDA.
> >
> >hth
> >charles
> >
> >On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >> Now the problem comes when one of my clients whose web site I'm
> >> hosting, lets say hiswebsite.com, /also/ wants a pop3 account "joe".
> >> There cannot be 2 users named joe on one server. The most common thing
> >> to do here is to make a local user "joe2" and user the virtual
> >> usertable to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to localuser "joe2" but that is
> >> NOT an acceptable solution. Some pop3d, such as GnuPop3d are able to
> >> handle this completely virutally, without needed to map the user to a
> >> local user. It does this by getting the mail out of /var/spool/vmail/.
> >> My problem, and the question I"m asking, is, how do I get Postfix to
> >> put virtual users mail into /var/spool/vmail? For instance, when mail
> >> comes in for [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of going to
> >> /var/spool/mail/joe, it goes to /var/spool/vmail/hiswebsite.com/joe
> >> and if I also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED], then his mail goes in
> >> /var/spool/vmail/bigclient.com/joe and if there's a
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], her mail would go into
> >> /var/spool/vmail/bigclient.! com/ja ne
> >
> >
> >
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