add qmail users

[amit_shah25]

Hi all,

I have been trying to setup qmail on my machine lately. I read the documentation at the website, and I was able to follow that to quite a point.

Now I have a question regarding adding users for my qmail mail server.

Say I want 50 people using my mail server. Now suppose that the mail server is hosted in a redhat machine. In that case, is it necessary that I add all those 50 people as users to my redhat server, and then only I can add them to my qmail as users ??

Please pardon if my stupid question !!

I am asking this because I am just thinking that those 50 people dont need to do anything with the linux server. They only need to access the qmail mail server. They wont be using any other resources on the server.

tHaNkS

[flar]

if you want your users to use only mail services on the system, then probably you need virtual users for email. i have accomplished this using vpopmail (http://www.inter7.com/?page=vpopmail); for virtual domains and users, courier-imap (http://www.inter7.com/?page=courierimap); for IMAP and POP services, and Squirrelmail (http://www.squirrelmail.org) for web-based email client. you can also add domains and users using qmailAdmin (http://www.inter7.com/?page=qmailadmin).

but then, you can also try to view the qmail documentations on how to achieve this.

goodluck!