On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:33:09PM +0100, Jan Cobb wrote:
> (Date/Time: 30/06/04 2:03 pm), Jim Medley wrote:
> > Jan, I'm not sure I have the answer you are looking for but, I am
> > running a Mac G4 with OS 10.2.8. I started sendmail and installed
> > qpopper. The way I set up users is to go to system pref. and
> > accounts. I put in user and password and re-start sendmail. Thats all
> > there is to it. Hope it helps a little. Jim
>
> Thanks, Jim, but that will just add the users (who are not local to my
> machine, which is sat in my spare bedroom) to the normal MacOSX system,
> producing home directories, etc. I have configured postfix (installed under
> 10.3 instead of sendmail) to put incoming messages in virtual mailboxes in 2
> subdirectories, depending on the domain to which they refer. Now I need to
> find a way to get ipop3d or qpopper to look at the locations I have already
> determined, depending on the POP login of the remote user (normal POP
> activity when operated by an ISP.
qpopper is just not the POP server for this. It's good, but it really
expects to work off "real" local users in the password file. If you
want purely virtual users, you should look at some other pop daemons.
Try vpopmail; I haven't used it but have heard good things about it.
-- Clifton
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