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Re: [webmin-l] Simple DNS and Sendmail questions
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From: Craig W. <cra...@az...> - 2006-09-01 00:42:07
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An MTA doesn't know anything about user accounts / system users and doesn't do mail delivery. That is handled by another process...typically procmail on a sendmail system with say, dovecot as a backend. Most MTA's have a configurable methodology to discover users usually as a means to decide whether to accept or reject an e-mail which is best done at the MTA level (rejecting being more favorable than accepting and then deciding to bounce it later on in the delivery process). Jamie's philosophy for Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin is to have system users. Dovecot/Cyrus-IMAPd/Courier are all capable of have 'virtual' users which don't actually exist in /etc/passwd whether the virtual users db is LDAP or say MySQL. Personally, I use LDAP as my userdb, and then Postfix, Cyrus-IMAPd but I could accomplish similar with Sendmail and Dovecot...it's all a matter of taste. Craig On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:06 -0700, Michael Ryerse wrote: > Thanks. I think I checked /named/chroot/var/named, but I'll double > check. > > As for Sendmail requiring a user, I beleive that is entirely true, as > I am sure there are thousands of sendmail servers out there that host > multiple domains and come across situations where they have a mailbox > for bo...@do..., as well as a mailbox for bo...@do..., who are > entirely different users, and since the users have no use on the > system other than for mail, there is no need to create a system > account, because this is a mail server. > > Regardless, I might find myself trying Qmail or Postfix simply because > the documentation for Sendmail seems to be scarce. It shouldn't take > this long to find simple steps to do something as simple as create a > user's mailbox. > > > On 8/31/06, Brian Case <we...@we...> wrote: > Michael Ryerse wrote: > > Hi, I just got a VPS server with FC4 and webmin. I have > been setting > > up BIND and noticed that the three zones I created did not > cause a > > zone file to be written in /var/named. /etc/named.conf > seems to be > > getting updated, but points to zone files that do not exist, > and I > > think that this is causing name resolution to not work. Any > suggestions? > > > > > > Also, with Sendmail, I was wondering if someone could point > me to some > > documentation on how to create mailboxes via webmin for > sendmail. I > > do not want to use system users for mail, just want > mailboxes. There > > doesn't seem to be a straight-forward method to do this in > webmin. > Regarding the BIND question, look > in /var/named/chroot/var/named for > your zone files... I think BIND is chrooted in Fedora by > default... > > Regarding the Sendmail question, I don't think there is a way > to have a > mailbox without a user... An alias, sure, but not a mailbox... > > Brian Case > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web > services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make > your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on > Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > - > Forwarded by the Webmin mailing list at > web...@li... > To remove yourself from this list, go to > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > - Forwarded by the Webmin mailing list at web...@li... To remove yourself from this list, go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list |
