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

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

I don't use dovecot - I use cyrus-imapd

I went to dovecot.org and found 'virtual user configuration' on listed
on their wiki.

Craig

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 20:53 -0400, Brian Case wrote:
> 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
> >>     
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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