sendmail config: non-system mail accounts?

[Jacob Yocom-Piatt]

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.
b...@domain1.com and b...@domain2.com are delivered to separate mailboxes with
distinct passwords for IMAPS and SASL2 relaying. i am aware that i could add
entries like

b...@domain1.com bob
b...@domain2.com 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

[L. V. Lammert]

At 07:01 PM 6/14/2006 -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
>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 ).

Same with sendmail - . virtusertable

Lee