i'm pretty comfortable using postfix as an MTA, but i have only now been fiddling with sendmail. everything has been going fine, except that i can't figure out how to add mail accounts for users without adding them as users on the mailserver itself when using sendmail. for postfix this is clearly documented in an example on the website (see http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_mailbox ).
my motivation here is that i would like to have virtual mailboxes for a single user, say bob, at multiple domains that i host on the same machine, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are delivered to separate mailboxes with distinct passwords for IMAPS and SASL2 relaying. i am aware that i could add entries like [EMAIL PROTECTED] bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] bob to /etc/mail/virtusertable or even make two distinct system accounts, bob1 and bob2, for each of the addresses and then have the shell set to /usr/bin/false. the upshot is that i don't want to have to add system accounts for users who want mail services. thx for reading, jake
