Re: [webmin-l] Simple DNS and Sendmail questions

[Brian C. <we...@we...>]

I didn't know Dovecot could do that...
Where does sendmail/procmail store the incoming mail?
On my systems they are stored in files that are owned by the UID/GID of 
the recipient. Which wouldn't exist without system accounts...

Brian

Craig White wrote:
> 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
>>