Re: [exim] About adding user

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Author: Moritz Kobel
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To: Fabio Cuomo
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] About adding user
Hello,

vexim is probaly something you are looking for.
this provides a solution for exim + courier-(imap|pop) with
a php-webinterface to manage the accounts and domains.

Vexim:
http://silverwraith.com/vexim/


-moritz

Fabio Cuomo wrote:
> Hi at all,
> i've a question about adding a new user and enable him to use email
> account. I've have debian linux distro. I know that to enable user to
> use email account, I must add him to the system (use adduser command)
> and then user can check and send email.
>
> But suppose that I must create 1.000 email account, then according
> with those write above, I would have to add 1.000 users to my system
> and then permit them to use all services present into the system, e.g.
> ftp, ssh, etc.
>
> Can i enable user to use email account without add him to the system
> (using adduser) with exim ??Exist some authentication mechanism that
> permit it ?
> Looking at exim, I know that each user have, also a system account, a
> mailbox space usually in /var/mail/<user>. Then using another
> mechanism i however create his mailbox space to enable email, is this
> correct ??
>
> I have read about cyrus, can I realize such mechanism using it ??
> Please help me,
> any kind of help is granted.
> regards,
> mulp
>


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