On 01/01/2013 06:40 PM, DormitionSkete@hotmail.com wrote:
On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:31 AM, Andrzej A. Filip wrote:
On 12/31/2012 04:19 AM, DormitionSkete@hotmail.com wrote:
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- Do you use virtual users with or without domain part? [virtual-user or virtual-user@exaple.net ]
Without.
virtual-user
- How many entries do you have in paswdb/userdb files? [<100,<1000,....] <100
Around 10.
- Is SMTP AUTH crucial for virtual users?
No. I'd like it, but it's not crucial.
We don't have it now for anyone. The only way we access our email outside the monastery is through SquirrelMail. I was hoping to add that with this server upgrade. It'd be nice to open our email access up more, but we can live without it if we have to.
Based on the above replies I would suggest first modified version of the recipe below. There are many other ways but it seems to best fit your case with simple and stable changes to sendmail.mc/sendmail.cf. http://anfi.homeunix.org/sendmail/localNalias.html
- In *.mc file add LOCAL_CONFIG
declare DOVECOT "magic word"
CPDOVECOT
Deliver messages to *@DOVECOT using dovecot mailer [requires FEATURE(`mailertable')]. mailertable: DOVECOT dovecot:localhost
Do not accept messages to *@DOVECOT via SMTP [requires FEATURE(
access_db') and FEATURE(blacklist_recipients')] access: to:DOVECOT REJECTcreate aliases for virtualusers (one alias per one virtual user) aliases: virtualuser1: virtualuser1@DOVECOT virtualuser2: virtualuser2@DOVECOT
Comments about "narrowing" questions:
- case with domain part is usually more complex
- sendmail may be configured to check recipient existence in dovecot's userdb/paswdb files but it would use method I would not recommend for bigger userdb/passwd files
- sendmail supports cyrus-sasl, sendmail does not support dovecot-sasl