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

[Dov Z. <do...@za...>]

=D7=A6=D7=99=D7=98=D7=95=D7=98 Brian Case:
> On a Sendmail system, the situation below would be handled like this:
>
> bo...@do... would have a system username of bob and mail for=20
> bo...@do... would be aliased to bob via the virtusertable
> bo...@do... would have a system username of bob2 and mail for=20
> bo...@do... would be aliased to bob2 via the virtusertable
>
> I have no experience with Qmail or Postfix but I know Sendmail does not=
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> provide POP3 or IMAP services... I use Dovecot for those services...=20
> Since both Sendmail and Dovecot need to be able to authenticate users,=20
> having one username/password source (The user account) makes sense...
>
> Brian
>
>  =20
I also use Sendmail and Dovecot, however none of my mail users has a=20
local account. I use a MySQL database to authenticate users, and to hold=20
all kinds of additional information, such as DSLAM number and port,=20
contact phone number and etc.

It is much easier to maintain a system with an external user database,=20
be it LDAP, SQL or whatever, than to maintain users in system accounts.
> Michael Ryerse wrote:
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>> Thanks.  I think I checked /named/chroot/var/named, but I'll double ch=
eck.
>> =20
>> As for Sendmail requiring a user, I beleive that is entirely true, as=20
>> I am sure there are thousands of sendmail servers out there that host=20
>> multiple domains and come across situations where they have a mailbox=20
>> for bo...@do... <mailto:bo...@do...>, as well as a mailbox for=
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>> bo...@do... <mailto:bo...@do...>, who are entirely different=20
>> users, and since the users have no use on the system other than for=20
>> mail, there is no need to create a system account, because this is a=20
>> mail server.
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>> Regardless, I might find myself trying Qmail or Postfix simply because=
=20
>> the documentation for Sendmail seems to be scarce.  It shouldn't take=20
>> this long to find simple steps to do something as simple as create a=20
>> user's mailbox.
>>
>> =20
>> On 8/31/06, *Brian Case* <we...@we...=20
>> <mailto: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 webmi=
n.
>>     Regarding the BIND question, look in /var/named/chroot/var/named f=
or
>>     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 <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-l=
ist>
>>
>>    =20
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