On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:52:01PM +0200, Aubert Gabor wrote: > Hi there! > > I have a short question: > What's the way, if I would like to provide only e-mail service to the > users? No telnet, ftp account, only POP3.
You might look into qmail, and on the site at: http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/single-uid-howto.html for instructions on how to support many POP3 users under one system UID. It's one possible solution -- there may be others. Because of the licensing of qmail, there's no binary .deb of it -- the packages you get include the sources, and the package includes scripts to handle the building of them. If you go for a reasonably complete qmail installation, with ucspi-tcp and rblsmtpd, one of the packages is messed up just a bit and will leave you with compiler warnings. I don't recall which it is, but it's an easy fix. Find the subdirectory named for the package in /tmp/ and change into it, then chmod u+x * the thing. The compiler warnings will go away, and the result will be a nicely installable .deb of the binary. I just started using qmail this year, and like it just fine. It's a lot easier to administer than sendmail or smail, and it's allegedly a lot more secure, too. -- ---- Art Sackett ----
