silly quesiton

[Stephane Magnier]

hi Marc,

That's correct, I have an account for each users.. Which is great 
perfect for now.. but if the system is growing up.. if a user change, 
this is a lot  work..  I would prefer to get and standard mailbox.. and 
then let suppose that a user is changing, you  just login and 
passwrd.... eventually, delete or keep the previous emails... and that's 
it !

I using sendmail, but this is not clear how to share the same passwrd 
file, than Dovecot.. to be honest I should be able to get a file to 
manage on Sendmail, login and passwrd attached to the mailbox... Nb1

On 1/25/22 09:39, Marc wrote:
>> So just to be clear, each user has a login on your mail server in
>> /etc/passwd?  If so, I would strongly urge you to move to using only
>> virtual users on your mail infrastructure.
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> Why? Just disallow login, and that is from the perspective that a mail user should be limited mail resources.
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> I argue exactly the opposite. Keep as much as possible linux users. As linux has been engineered for allowing multiple user accounts, and most other virtual user providers that are used here, have not.
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