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

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

=D7=A6=D7=99=D7=98=D7=95=D7=98 Brian Case:
> 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=
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> the recipient. Which wouldn't exist without system accounts...
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Not true. The system can use UIDs and GIDs stored externally to the=20
system. Just Google for information, there is a lot out there. It isn't=20
really difficult to set up, and it is very easy to maintain.

If you decide to go SQL, you have to compile dovecot from source with=20
SQL support, since Fedora's dovecot doesn't provide this support off the=20
shelf. The Fedora source rpm does have the ability to compile with it.

> Brian
>
> Craig White wrote:
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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...typical=
ly
>> 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 t=
o
>> 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:
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>>> Thanks.  I think I checked /named/chroot/var/named, but I'll double
>>> check.
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>>> 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 ar=
e
>>> 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.
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>>> Regardless, I might find myself trying Qmail or Postfix simply becaus=
e
>>> 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.=20
>>>
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>>> On 8/31/06, Brian Case <we...@we...> wrote:=20
>>>         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=20
>>>         > 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.  An=
y
>>>         suggestions?=20
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         > 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=20
>>>         > 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...
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>>>         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...
>>>        =20
>>>         Brian Case
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