At 9/1/01 6:54 PM, Maestro346aol.com wrote:

>I am currently setting up postfix on a server that is also hosting several
>web sites. I am trying to achieve a setup where postfix can provide POP mail
>access to multiple users on every site our server is hosting. I haven't the
>slightest idea how to begin to set it up to do this, the only way I know to
>add a mail account currently is to add a user account to solaris itself. I
>don't see making 100s of user accounts on option for mail, and I also don't
>know how to make the server accept mail for multiple users from more than
>one
>site. If anyone knows how I might achieve the kind of setup I am looking for
>PLEASE contact me! Anything is better than nothing, any HOWTO's would be
>great too!

You want "virtual delivery". Postfix offers a couple of different ways to
accomplish this.

The virtual TABLE allows you to redirect addresses to different local
users, with entries like this:

  example1.com virtual
  salesexample1.com sales1

  example2.com virtual
  salesexample2.com sales2
  webmasterexample2.com webmaster7

This would deliver mail to local Unix accounts named sales1, sales2, and
webmaster7. You'd need to create these accounts on your server, and tell
each user what the real name is they should log into. You can do this
with whatever POP server you already have.

The second method Postfix offers is the virtual DELIVERY AGENT. It allows
you to specify that mail for each address be delivered to an arbitrary
location, without requiring that each mailbox be a different Unix
account. You would then use a POP server that can work without having a
real Unix account for each user, such as Courier-IMAP. This setup is
slightly more complicated, but allows you to abstract out the mail from
your Unix system accounts.

Much more complicated scenarios are also possible, such as replacing the
local delivery agent entirely with a variety of different servers such as
Cyrus, or putting all your accounts into LDAP, etc. You should probably
check out the first two solutions first.

For more information, "man 5 virtual" and "man 8 virtual" after
installing Postfix.

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
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