how to add new email account to sendmail/postfix
 

Newb question:

How do you add a new email account using sendmail or postfix? its my understanding that you just add a regular user account but is there any sendmail/postfix configuration that needs to be done?

Thanks guyz

Try it, see what happens

If you use maildir style delivery, you may need to create the maildir directory structure with maildirmake

Sorry guyz,
I'm kinda newb so I'm not sure what to do or test once I create a user. CAn you guy point me in the right direction? Thanks again.

You shouldn't have to do anything - send them an email.

Ok, sorry for such a newb question.

That's fine. Did it work?

note: if you are using maildir for email, then you should have run maildirmake against /etc/skel as root, so every time you add a new user their Maildir is automatically created.