How do I add email users to virtual domains in Redhat9 ?

cgchris99 · 05-07-2003, 12:11 PM

I have setup Redhat 9 with virtual domains. But how do I add email users to the virtual domains. These are not normal users that should be able to login via telnet or ssh but just for email.

Thanks for any help

td3201 · 05-07-2003, 03:57 PM

You are asking a question that annoys me as well. Most server applications for email require a local user, imap, pop3, etc...there are also issues with multiple domains like you said. Let's say you have 2 domains on your box:
foo.com
bar.com

Let's say you have two Jim's at these domains:
jim@foo.com
jim@bar.com

how do you make that work? well, you can setup virtuser to send all mail for jim@bar.com to a different user on the box other than jim, let's say jimhanson. but that is dumb and hard to manage especially if you have thousands of users. you need to develop a mail system that uses an authentication store outside of linux, like ldap. I know exim is a great MTA with awesome LDAP support.

I know that dmail (or is it tmail) has decent LDAP support (its a local mailer like procmail).