>> I think I understand where you're trying to say. You want to create a mail
>> server to handle many users, but you don't want to use /etc/passwd to do
>> this. Sendmail is awesome, but I don't know it it lets you do such a thing
>> (sendmail lovers: please apologize me if I am wrong..).
>
>Of course sendmail lets you do this (in fact, there's very little that
>sendmail doesn't let you do; the main reason for the complexity of its
>configuration is that it has to be able to cope with just about
>anything one might possibly want to do with it).
>
>Sendmail doesn't care less if the username is in /etc/passwd unless
>you tell it to (via the `w' flag in the mailer definition). It just
>passes the message to the specified delivery agent. Of course, some
>delivery agents may only be able to deliver to valid accounts,
>although procmail doesn't have this restriction (again, you can make
>it so through configuration).
Thanks Glynn for your explanation! I've never really tried to understand
how sendmail's configuration system works. Good thing you've explained us
that, in fact, it is possible to use a file for user manegement other than
/etc/passwd.
Thanks again,
Henrique Pantarotto
Coord. T�cnico Operacional
CEPAnet Internet Provider
Web: http://www.cepa.com.br
Tel. suporte: +55 (011) 5506-8477
Sao Paulo - Brasil
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