On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:53:23PM +0530, KK wrote:
> Hello Everyone -
>
> I am a new entrant to the "qmail" world and have recently installed the qmail_1.03
>server on a Red Hat Linux 6.0. I have also istalled the UW-imap server with Maildir
>support. I have successfully configured NS-Communicator to send and receive mails
>using the IMAP ptotocol using qmail. I am even able to send and receive emails using
>Outlook Express from other Windows systems in the local network. For accessing thses
>emails, I was creating system users by logging-in as root and using the LInuxConf
>utility. Now my questions are:
>
> 1. How do I create dynamic system users (and assign them passwords) and the mail
>directories within the users home directories from inside an email-client
>application, which uses the IMAP protocol to access emails (just like it is done on
>hotmail.com or any other web-based email systems)?
Let me see if I understand this correctly -- you want to create mail
accounts from within an MUA? If that's what you're asking, it cannot be
done, and if it could I would run* as from from qmail as humanly
possible. Even Microsoft does not have this "feature". If this is not
what you're asking, please restate the nature of the problem.
*screaming.
>
> 2. Is the creation of system users avoidable for generating email addresses? For eg.
>can I have an email addrress account hosted on the above email server -
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] without creating a system user named "joe"? If yes, how can I
>make this possible, both as a root user and also from within an email-client
>application? Is there a readymade script available to do this?
Lots of options available here. Start with 'man qmail-users'. Look into
the 'vpopmail' package, or its alternative (whose name escapes me at
this moment). System accounts are not a requirement, and there are tons
of ways to attack the problem.
--
Greg White
