On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Evin Robertson wrote:
> I'm trying to set up email for a few hundred users, but they don't need
> shell accounts and I'd rather not use /etc/passwd to manage their
> accounts. The "features" section of the exim manual says I can set
> things up without creating real accounts, but I haven't found a simple
> explanation of how to do this.
There are some good examples in the Exim documentation about this; for
example:
C007: "If I host a domain foo.dom on my machine as a virtual domain I
expect it to be completely virtual and separate from other mail domains
that end up on my machine."
C009: "These are suggested parts of a configuration for looking up users
in /etc/passwd.domain rather than in /etc/passwd ..."
> A plain text file with each line containing username and password would
> be perfect, but it's not clear how to get exim to accept mail to people
That is how I do it. I learned from the Exim config samples.
My passwords are located at /etc/virtual/$domain/passwd. Exim also lets me
use separate aliases files for each domain.
> explained somewhere, a pointer would also be fine. Info on how to set
> up the IMAP end of it would also be appreciated.
I am not sure how to do the IMAP part. I use POP3. If you have questions
about POP3 or IMAP, you may want to continue that part of your discussion
on the pop-imap@??? mailing list.
Good luck,
Jeremy C. Reed
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