Sendmail isn't what gives someone POP3 access. Something like Qpopper does.
However, most of the sendmail+(something) combinations you're going to find are going to require you to build "full blown" accounts for each user. While they do not have to have shell access, they will have a /home directory and an entry in your /etc/passwd. If you're trying to avoid that, you'll have to use a different POP3 server and I'd recommend a different MTA than sendmail. What you're looking to do (email accounts without user accounts) is sometimes called a "black-box" setup. We use a combination of Postfix to replace sendmail and Cyrus to do POP3/IMAP. You can also do this with Courier-IMAP. Both are in the /usr/ports/mail tree. Exim is another popular replacement for sendmail and works well with either Cyrus or Courier-IMAP. With a simple shell script and pw, you could add all those accounts to the machine if necessary, but if you use one of these other methods you'd probably wind up wanting to use a LDAP or Database back end to store all that information. Hope this gets you started. John Straiton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clickcom, Inc 704-365-9970x101 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Keith Spencer > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:59 PM > To: fbsd > Subject: are virtual mail account users possible with > sendmail on freebsd > > > Hi all, > I am wondering how I can add mail acocunts without > actually creating full-blown user accounts for my lan > users. > I have sendmail on fbsd 4.7 (new build machine and I > dont want to create shell accnts for all my users on > this new machine) > Whatever help you might give me perhaps I can use > webmin to add the new users... I have 600 users to > add. > Whoa...thats a lot of work..HELP???!! > Thanks so much in adavnce > Keith > http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your seasons greetings online this year! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
