On 01/01/2013 06:40 PM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: > On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: > >> On 12/31/2012 04:19 AM, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote: >>> [...] >> 1) Do you use virtual users with or without domain part? >> [virtual-user or virtual-u...@exaple.net ] > > Without. > > virtual-user > > >> 2) How many entries do you have in paswdb/userdb files? >> [<100,<1000,....] > <100 > > Around 10. > > >> 3) Is SMTP AUTH crucial for virtual users? >> > No. I'd like it, but it's not crucial. > > We don't have it now for anyone. The only way we access our email outside > the monastery is through SquirrelMail. I was hoping to add that with this > server upgrade. It'd be nice to open our email access up more, but we can > live without it if we have to. Based on the above replies I would suggest first modified version of the recipe below. There are many other ways but it seems to best fit your case with simple and stable changes to sendmail.mc/sendmail.cf. http://anfi.homeunix.org/sendmail/localNalias.html
1) In *.mc file add LOCAL_CONFIG # declare DOVECOT "magic word" CPDOVECOT 2) Deliver messages to *@DOVECOT using dovecot mailer [requires FEATURE(`mailertable')]. mailertable: DOVECOT dovecot:localhost 3) Do not accept messages to *@DOVECOT via SMTP [requires FEATURE(`access_db') and FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')] access: to:DOVECOT REJECT 4) create aliases for virtualusers (one alias per one virtual user) aliases: virtualuser1: virtualuser1@DOVECOT virtualuser2: virtualuser2@DOVECOT Comments about "narrowing" questions: 1) case with domain part is usually more complex 2) sendmail may be configured to check recipient existence in dovecot's userdb/paswdb files but it would use method I would not recommend for bigger userdb/passwd files 3) sendmail supports cyrus-sasl, sendmail does not support dovecot-sasl
