Using sendmail for my domain 1

[pcarver]

I have a registered domain X and want to use sendmail to store/retreive mail (currently useiMail on NT). I assume I can configure sendmail to get mail addressed to joe@X.com. I think I have to have a DNS MX record added for this (I guess I'll have my DNS folks do this). Questions...I just want to be able to then use sendmail to retreive the mail addressed to folks @X.com, then have PC clients like Outlook retrieve the mail (use sendmail as POP3). How do I create a bunch of addresses like joe@X.com, fred@X.com? Do I have to create Linux accounts for them? I've got a sendmail book, but I can't find this stuff...maybe sendmail can't do it.

Help!?#*&$@*!

/paul

 

[ifincham]

Hi,















Sendmail is a SMTP server - in Linux/Unix it can be used on its own with users picking up their mail direct from the mailbox, e.g. /home/user/mbox using 'pine' or a similar client.















For external use however, you would need to <also> run a pop3 or imap4 server which would deliver email to those clients. Yes, you'd have to create linux accounts for those users but you should give them a false shell so that they can't login. For example add '/bin/false' on its own line at the bottom of the /etc/shells file and use that as the shell instead of /bin/bash or whatever. This prevents the user logging in - or you can edit /etc/passwd to do the same thing if you prefer.















To be honest, postfix -->

http://www.postfix.org/

(once known as the IBM secure mailer), is probably easier to admin than sendmail so you might want to try that. On redhat, the pop3 server is found (confusingly enough!) in the 'imap' rpm along with imap itself. You might also like to look at the famous qmail package which M$ used to run on FreeBSD for hotmail. That has its own pop3 server.

http://www.qmail.org

.

Hope this helps..