Hi,

I would really appreciate it if someone can help me with setting up POP3 accounts on my RedHat box (administered with webmin). I would like to know how I can set up POP3 accounts for different users (eg. name1@user.com, name2@user.com).

Thanks in advance for the help.

A little more information might help :D Are you running sendmail, qmail?

Frank

Originally posted by ffeingol
A little more information might help :D Are you running sendmail, qmail?

Frank Thanks Frank,

To tell you the truth, I'm not too sure about all of this.

To start off, POP3 is working for me. I already have one POP3 account working - for example: user@boxname.com

What I'd like to do is add other POP3 accounts, using not just the box name, but also other domain names hosted on my box - for example: anotheruser@anotherdomain.com

Looking at webmin under extended internet services, POP3 is enabled, and the listed server program is /usr/sbin/ipop3d.

And yes, I'm using sendmail. (doesn't everybody :-)

I hope this was enough information. Thanks again.

Originally posted by Abu Mami
And yes, I'm using sendmail. (doesn't everybody :-)


No, everyone does not use sendmail :D We use qmail.

Frank

To add POP accounts using Webmin click on the 'Servers' tab then go to 'Sendmail Configuration'. In the 'Address Mapping' is where you configure the email accounts.

Originally posted by Steve33
To add POP accounts using Webmin click on the 'Servers' tab then go to 'Sendmail Configuration'. In the 'Address Mapping' is where you configure the email accounts.
Umm, as far as I know, this is just for defining email addresses to be forwarded somewhere, not for creating POP accounts. For example, I have several addresses defined for my box using "address mapping" - addr1@boxname.com, addr2@boxname.com, etc. But these don't give me POP3 mailboxes. I also have the "standard" POP3 mailboxes available, for example: user1@boxname.com, user2@boxname.com, etc.

What I'd like to do is to be able to define not only POP3 mailboxes for users using my box's name, but to allow these users to set up POP3 mailboxes for their own domain names. For example: mailbox@user1domain.com, mailbox@user2domain.com, etc. Is this possible?

Thanks.

Abu Mami - did you ever get an answer or figure it out yourself?
I'm still searching for the answers on how to setup POP3 mailboxes for sales@domain.com and sales@anotherdomain.com on the same server.
Or is the only solution to create normal accounts for users and then use sendmail features to change the names.
I.e.
Create users joe and bill, then setup virtualtables for
sales@domain.com is mapped to joe and sales@anotherdomain.com is mapped to bill,
and reversed for sending.

Seems abit of a hack as the POP3 client will need login set to bill or joe with password, but Reply-To Address set to sales@domain.com
This means that a host offering 70 POP3 mailboxes is actually creating 70 uniquely named user accounts?
(Reserecuting an old post instead of posting the same question.)