(Date/Time: 1/07/04 8:31 pm), Clifton Royston wrote: > 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
Thanks, Clifton. I've just had a quick look at the documentation on Sourceforge and it might be the answer for me. Janette
