At 06:00 PM 4/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
Not to make this difficult, there is more than one way in Qmail to do this.
It can't be that hard and I can't believe there is no documentation on this.
I don't care if I use the qmail way or not. I just need to have multiple
users get their mail off the machine and not have shell accounts for any of
them.
If I use the hosteddomains/acceptmailfor method I get MX record is wrong.
If I add a user to alias as @domain.org: adminuser I get no user exists.
I have a directory with the users Maildir so I doubt that is the problem.
The only hitch I can think of is that my machine name is the same as the
virtual host name.
I.e. centaur.laschools.org is the machine name and I want all mail to
laschools.org to be virtual.
If you use @domain.org alias, it must point to a user on the system
(passwd/shadow/userdb) and that user must have a maildir and the users home
directory must have a .courier-default file for anyu...@domain.org or a
.courier-username file for each username you want to sent to. The .courier
files contain the path to the maildir, eg: ./Maildir/
MX record is wrong? Are you using an IP address for the DNS MX record?
Can't do that...
You should put laschools.org in the locals file. Make sure it's also in
~courier/etc/esmtpacceptmailfor.dir/default (or any filename in that
directory) and run makeacceptmailfor.
Since that's your actual primary domain name, it's not really "virtual" I
wouldn't think.
You don't have to have shell accounts for users, but you will need some
authentication mechanism like userdb (the simplest that comes with Courier)
- it is basically similar in function to the /etc/passwd file - you create
user accounts with passwords and where their home email directory is, then
you have to create the Maildirs in the filesystem home directories, and
there you go. People pop in, authenticate against userdb, and get their
mail from the ~home/Maildir specified in userdb.
-Patrick
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