From: Luc Brouard (mailing-listsslortar.net)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 16:49:39 CST

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On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:43:45PM -0500, Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Luc Brouard wrote:
>
> > > > I am using :
> > > > mailbox_transport = maildrop
> > > > with this transport in master.cf
> > > > maildrop unix - n n - 10 pipe
> > > > flags=uR user=mail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${user}
> > > >
> > > > And aliases are working ok. So maybe it seems to me that both
> > > > (aliases and using maildrop for delivery) are possible at the same
> > > > time.
> > >
> > > And these are for virtual users or local users? I'm still working on that
> > > one...
> >
> > This is only with local users. (/etc/passwd), and aliases from
> > /etc/aliases.
> >
>
> No, with mailbox_transport, one can deliver to users not present in the
> password file (so long as local_recipient_maps is adjusted accordingly).
> This said, it is not necessarily a good idea to use this mechanism for
> users not in the password file, given the .forward, alias, and other
> contexts where the shell users and mailbox_transport users overlap.

What I meant was that my set up was like this. Nothing more.
Sorry for the confusion.
This is for home usage, 2 users with shell access, 2 users with shell to
/bin/false. A few aliases for all those ones, plus aliases for mailing
lists.

Luc

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