Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 14:19:42 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: So what's your point? I just though it would be nice if someone answered the actual question, that's all. No flame bait involved. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?
So what's your point? Ok, the above was flame bait. This is a list, and one of the disadvantages of a list, if it's indeed a disadvantage, is that the conversations can get out of the control of the person who started a thread. That's similar to face to face conversations with more than 2 people. The person who asked the question can probably get the conversation back on track all on his own w/o your help. Anyway, my answer to his question, which I tried to say as nicely as possible, is that you probably can't get an internet MTA to do what he wants w/o going into the source. Further, I can think of no good reason to try what he's doing given the work that would be involved. But hey, there are lists that specialize in particular MTA's. Sendmail has one, and so does qmail. Though I'll warn you about the qmail list. The people who dominate that list (who answer the questions) like to sneer a lot at people they consider fools. But of course there's the saying that sticks and stones === Al --- Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:47:49 -0700 (PDT), Al wrote: Well, qmail and sendmail, as do most mail transport agents (MTA) have one thing in common. They actually don't do password authentication. They just deliver mail. [snip] I'll just point out that Matthew Scarrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the original poster, and it's him that you should be addressing your comments to. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?
So to summarize, * you have created accounts on RH that have @ userid's in the userid. * Email isn't reaching those accounts, because sendmail is attempting to deliver to username on the loal machine, instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is literally the name of that account. Wow! I can't help but feel you're on the wrong track. Perhaps you've seen a email client that used the [EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax but actually logged onto the pop server using username, and used @yourdomain.com part to figure out the hostname instead of making the user fill out a separate field with the hostname. To be honest, I don't know why you would want to use this, but perhaps you should post to the comp.mail.sendmail usenet group. Maybe someone there would have some ideas. === Al --- Matthew Scarrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it's possible to have a email system where the user logs in with there email address. I don't know how this is done though. I've been trying to configure sendmail to do this but with no luck. I create a user that has a name like [EMAIL PROTECTED] .The user is able to login to the pop3 server using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a username but the email system doesn't match up the user's because sendmail strips the domain name when looking for a user. I've tried creating an alias but that doesn't work. Am I missing an inbetween program here. Anyone got any idea's. Thanks. Matthew Scarrow ComIT Solutions Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:30:03 -0700 (PDT), Al wrote: Wow! I can't help but feel you're on the wrong track. Perhaps you've seen a email client that used the [EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax but actually logged onto the pop server using username, and used @yourdomain.com part to figure out the hostname instead of making the user fill out a separate field with the hostname. To be honest, I don't know why you would want to use this, but perhaps you should post to the comp.mail.sendmail usenet group. Maybe someone there would have some ideas. I think qmail does this in connection with virtual accounts. Maybe that's where we're going here? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?
Well, qmail and sendmail, as do most mail transport agents (MTA) have one thing in common. They actually don't do password authentication. They just deliver mail. Now, unlike sendmail, qmail does come with a POP3 package installed, and that's presumably because qmail's default install settings use Maildir format instead of mbox format. (To summarize: mbox format is where each user's mailbox consists of 1 file with more than one message usually located in /var/spool/mail, whreas Maildir format uses separate files for each mail message, usually located in $HOME/Maildir). So, if you're going to investigate qmail for this functionality I'd look at qmail-pop3 (and if you plan on using that, make sure you use Maildir format) and also investigate Boorstein's checkpassword program (Boorstein created and maintain's qmail). Perhaps that uses the [EMAIL PROTECTED] format. I can't help you much with that, because I provide IMAP to access the qmail accounts I administer, specifically courier IMAP. Regarding virtual accounts, I googled qmail's docs real quick, and didn't find anything. Perhaps you're referring to virtual DOMAINS. All a virtual domain does is tell the MTA to accept email addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] whereas without that spec, the MTA will either bounce the message or attempt to relay it. Another feature qmail has (and you can also configure sendmail to do the same thing) is the abiity to set up more than one mailbox for one account. The way it works is, given an account, userid, you can configure that acount to deliver email to another mailbox if you email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. === Al --- Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:30:03 -0700 (PDT), Al wrote: Wow! I can't help but feel you're on the wrong track. Perhaps you've seen a email client that used the [EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax but actually logged onto the pop server using username, and used @yourdomain.com part to figure out the hostname instead of making the user fill out a separate field with the hostname. To be honest, I don't know why you would want to use this, but perhaps you should post to the comp.mail.sendmail usenet group. Maybe someone there would have some ideas. I think qmail does this in connection with virtual accounts. Maybe that's where we're going here? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:47:49 -0700 (PDT), Al wrote: Well, qmail and sendmail, as do most mail transport agents (MTA) have one thing in common. They actually don't do password authentication. They just deliver mail. [snip] I'll just point out that Matthew Scarrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the original poster, and it's him that you should be addressing your comments to. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?
I know it's possible to have a email system where the user logs in with there email address. I don't know how this is done though. I've been trying to configure sendmail to do this but with no luck. I create a user that has a name like [EMAIL PROTECTED] .The user is able to login to the pop3 server using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a username but the email system doesn't match up the user's because sendmail strips the domain name when looking for a user. I've tried creating an alias but that doesn't work. Am I missing an inbetween program here. Anyone got any idea's. Thanks. Matthew Scarrow ComIT Solutions Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
