On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:09, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
>
> > Title pretty much says it all. I want to have multiple email accounts on
> > my system, but not simply aliases which point to existing user accounts.
> > But I don't want to have to create new user accounts for each of those.
> > Is there a way to do this? I'm using postfix for my MTA. Another
> > solution I was looking at was maybe creating user accounts that didn't
> > have a home directory or login shell (/bin/false). Would that be the
> > solution?
>
> I had that same problem and desire a few years ago. I patched gnu-pop3d
> around 10 times to provide a POP3 server that can use different passwd
> files and different mail directories for each hostname. gnu-pop3d became
> dead and so a couple years ago, I forked it and started maintaining
> vm-pop3d. You may want to geive it a try. I use it with Exim, but others
> use it with postfix.
>
> http://www.reedmedia.net/software/virtualmail-pop3d/
> It also has information (and links to more) about using it with postfix.
>
> The CVS has the latest code.
>
> A patch against the old version is at
> http://www.reedmedia.net/software/virtualmail-pop3d/vm-pop3d-1.1.7e.diff.gz
>
> Over the past couple years, now a few other POP3 servers do similar.
>
> By the way, I also configure my MTA to have separate aliases files for
> each hostname.
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
> http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
Thanks for the info! Turns out, Gentoo has the port already :) I'll read
your page for info on how to configure the MTA properly, which I saw as
the biggest obstacle for now...
Thanks!
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