On 18 Oct 2005, at 16:59 , Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
I've successfully tested Postfix receiving from and sending to a
user on the OSX box if that user has a regular account, home folder
and all, etc. But do I have to create a full user acct, home
directory and all, for *every* user, to be able to receive and
store mail for that user? All mail is stored in /var/mail/username,
not anywhere in the user's home folder, AFAICT.
If you jsut use postfix, yes. What most people do is setup Courier/
MySQL to work with postfix. This allows the email users to be setup
just in a mysql database, and there mail is stored in maildirs
(usually somewhere like /usr/local/virtual/ or something.
If I use NetInfo Manager to create a user without a home folder,
that username shows up as a presumably accessible Postfix mailbox,
but I would have to add quite a bit more info to make it a useable
acct (passwd etc).
I'm much more familiar with Linux, normally I would user adduser
without a home directory, but there is no adduser/useradd on Darwin
that I can tell.
adduser is a fairly simple shell script. I downloaded one and used a
version in OS X for quite a while. Here's one:
<http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20040813023740511>
However, this is not what I use for the majority of my email
accounts. Go take a gander at
<http://postfixwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page>
and look at the Postfix+MySQL+Courier-IMAP+Maildrop+SpamAssassin
howto (or one of the other postfix+MySQL+Courier howtos).
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