At 07:49 AM 11/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>
>> You're getting warmer!
>>
>> 1st, this *is* the different MDA - I've switched to this from sendmail
>> because I know at least 3 people have gotten it working with Postfix.
>
>nope, this is the different MTA (Mail Transport Agent). procmail id the
>MDA (Mail Deliery Agent)
I realized that later - sorry
>I use both sendmail and postfix on various systems, but am by no means a
>guru.
>
>> I noticed this in main.cf:
>>
>> mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
>> #mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
>
>I'm guessing something along those lines. Before I sent you the email
>below, I checked the procmail manpage. I couldn't tell exactly what the -a
>switch does for you. I was hoping there was an obvious way to specify the
>spool file, but I couldn't see it. the -p switch looks promising though.
>
>Have you tried the mailhelp list at moongroup.com?
I tried the search, to much stuff that wasn't quite what I'm looking for, and I tried
subscribing, but my email bounced - some junk about an open relay. Kinda weird
>I'm a bit surprised you
>can't get this info fromtt he vmail people - if you ask me they should
>know.
WHERE? that's exactly what I'm looking for, by name even - vmail. Where are these
people? :-)
>sorry I can't be more help than that. I'd like to know how it turns out
>since I currently use the silly joe1 joe2 joe3 account schem to handle all
>my joes. It does suck. Good thing it's just for friends.
>
>charles
>
>>
>> Does that have anything to do with what you were talking about? Should
>> I use the one that's commented instead of the one that is currently
>> uncommented?
>>
>> At 11:26 PM 11/14/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Hi Jonathan
>> >
>> >Ok, I can't solve your problem but like to think I can lead you down the
>> >right path.
>> >
>> >The first thing you need to understand is that postfix (your MTA) does
>> >not deliver your mail. Your MDA does - most likely procmail.
>> >
>> >In your main.cf you will find two parameters that are related to this,
>> >most likely with these settings:
>> >
>> >mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
>> >mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
>> >
>> >So, I think you want to look into the procmail options. postfix provides
>> >all the necessary info needed to specify the sool file, in your case
>> >/var/spool/vmail/$EXTENSION/$LOCAL, you just need to figure out how to get
>> >procmail to use it :)
>> >
>> >Or try a different MDA.
>> >
>> >hth
>> >charles
>> >
>> >On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Now the problem comes when one of my clients whose web site I'm
>> >> hosting, lets say hiswebsite.com, /also/ wants a pop3 account "joe".
>> >> There cannot be 2 users named joe on one server. The most common thing
>> >> to do here is to make a local user "joe2" and user the virtual
>> >> usertable to map [EMAIL PROTECTED] to localuser "joe2" but that is
>> >> NOT an acceptable solution. Some pop3d, such as GnuPop3d are able to
>> >> handle this completely virutally, without needed to map the user to a
>> >> local user. It does this by getting the mail out of /var/spool/vmail/.
>> >> My problem, and the question I"m asking, is, how do I get Postfix to
>> >> put virtual users mail into /var/spool/vmail? For instance, when mail
>> >> comes in for [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of going to
>> >> /var/spool/mail/joe, it goes to /var/spool/vmail/hiswebsite.com/joe
>> >> and if I also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED], then his mail goes in
>> >> /var/spool/vmail/bigclient.com/joe and if there's a
>> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], her mail would go into
>> >> /var/spool/vmail/bigclient.! com/ja ne
>> >
>> >
>> >
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