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тАО11-16-2007 08:51 PM
тАО11-16-2007 08:51 PM
I am using sendmail and want to create user mail box (not a system user) which only accept/send mails.
How can we add user mailbox?
Thanks in advance
MKS
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тАО11-17-2007 03:02 AM
тАО11-17-2007 03:02 AM
Re: create user mailbox (not system users) sendmail
You must have to create user account, but you may set user's login shell to /bin/false or /bin/noshell so that user just can only access his/her mailbox but cant login on the system.
following command will create user 'james' and set user's shell to /bin/false so that james cant login on the system(but can access email using MUA eg thunderbird/Evolution/kmail or MS Outlook etc)
#useradd james -s /bin/false
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Maaz
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тАО11-18-2007 07:10 AM
тАО11-18-2007 07:10 AM
SolutionYou can use an alias to deliver mail to a mailbox, even without an account. You won't be able to POP it off, only access it locally however.
As for sending, unless you've turned on authentication, then you can send as any user you want.
Adding a line to '/etc/aliases' like:
fakeuser: /var/spool/mail/fakeuser
Then running 'newaliases' will accept mail for 'fakeuser@yourdomain'.
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тАО11-20-2007 09:34 PM
тАО11-20-2007 09:34 PM
Re: create user mailbox (not system users) sendmail
fakeuser is now geeting message.but how would fakeuser send the mail to others?
Thanks,
MKS
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тАО11-20-2007 11:06 PM
тАО11-20-2007 11:06 PM
Re: create user mailbox (not system users) sendmail
If you are sending via SMTP, then make sure the client is set up to use the right sending address (which it then puts in the 'MAIL FROM:
If you want to use 'mail' (or 'mailx' or 'mutt'), well I'm not even sure you can do that.
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тАО11-21-2007 08:31 PM
тАО11-21-2007 08:31 PM
Re: create user mailbox (not system users) sendmail
Now I want to setup MUA with fakeuser account on another machine other then mail server. I did it and start dovecot services on mail server also.
But when fakeuser account fatch the mail from Mail server, It is asking for fakeuser account password.
How can i set fakeuser password?
Thanks in advanced.
MKS
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тАО11-21-2007 08:48 PM
тАО11-21-2007 08:48 PM
Re: create user mailbox (not system users) sendmail
> You won't be able to POP it off, only access it locally however.
Using this method, you can't set a password for it to be collected. If you want to collect it, then set up a username/password pair as normal.
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тАО11-21-2007 09:08 PM
тАО11-21-2007 09:08 PM
Re: create user mailbox (not system users) sendmail
in case of above lets fakeuser is a normal account on mailserver, now i want to connect via client, I am getting following error.
error number 0x8000ccc92
Server Response -ERR Auhtentication failed
Your username and password was rejected
I have also unchecked Log on using secure Passward Authentication.
Thanks,
MKS
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тАО11-21-2007 10:41 PM
тАО11-21-2007 10:41 PM
Re: create user mailbox (not system users) sendmail
Just create normal account, disable any logins (ssh, ftp,telnet) for that account and you will have mail only user.
regards,
ivan