how to add new email account to sendmail/postfix

masenko703 · 06-01-2009, 08:02 PM

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

jamescondron · 06-01-2009, 08:16 PM

Try it, see what happens

billymayday · 06-01-2009, 08:30 PM

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

masenko703 · 06-01-2009, 11:39 PM

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.

billymayday · 06-01-2009, 11:44 PM

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

masenko703 · 06-02-2009, 01:30 AM

Ok, sorry for such a newb question.

billymayday · 06-02-2009, 01:32 AM

That's fine. Did it work?

farslayer · 06-02-2009, 07:24 AM

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.