To sendmail or to postfix that is the question?

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Thu, 11.03.2010 at 13:54:53 +0000, Paul Wootton wrote:
>Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >> I really wanted to use Sendmail as a friend knows Sendmail fairly well
> >> and I have a Sendmail book, but what I am wanting is the ability to have
> >> mail for virtual users, ie I might have 4 admin accounts,
> >> admin at domain1.com admin at domain2.com admin at domain3.com and
> >> admin at domain4.com and want all the accounts to be independent of each
> >> other and not necessarily have a real UNIX user account. I know I can
> >> create 4 different admin accounts say admin1, admin2, admin3, admin4 and
> >> then use the "virtual users" table, but I can see that getting a little
> >> messy and from the end user's point they are going to have unusual login
> >> names.
> >> I know I can do this in Postfix, but is it possible in Sendmail?
> >>
> >
> > Yes its possible. I do that with sendmail for a friend's domain I host
> > Here's an anonymised real operational sample from my server with comment added
> >
> > ...
> >
> > PS I skimmed but didnt really understand Matthew's posting, (not
> > saying its right or wrong, just didnt grasp it), but I have sendmail
> > working fine for my @berklix.org & for a friend's @surfacevision.com
> > So Paul, you can use sendmail for this if you want.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Julian
> >
>
>Thanks but unfortunately this really wont help me too much.
>My fault for not posting it before, but I currently have 9 domains (with
>a likely hood of another couple more being added), with an range from 5
>to 15 different email accounts per domain, hence me thinking it might
>get a little messy with all the UNIX accounts and virtual user table.
>

Use LDAP. That's what I did. Works fine with sendmail and dovecot, once
you have it working, you will find out, that it's actually documented
pretty decently. One of those things you always have to find out on
hindsight :)

Cheers,
Uli