[Gllug] POP3 server

[Xander D Harkness]

There are a couple of ways you can get round this.

The easiest as you have the pop3 daemon on your box is to set the users
shell to /bin/false in the /etc/passwd file.  Any cammand they try to
run (login etc.) will fail.

Other than that you could install something like Cyrus imap which runs
its own password file.

Cheers
Xander

On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 15:48, Robert Wood wrote:
> I know this is nto directly linux related, but i should imagine the
> program(s) would be the same on bsd, what im trying to do is to give my
> friends their own pop3 mailbox on my server, which i have done, by making
> accounts for them on the server itself, but as they will never need to login
> to the shell, i dont particularly want to have all these accounts, so i was
> wondering, is there a pop3 server program that i can run, where i can just
> create pop3 mailbox accounts only? so say i have user "fred" i dont want to
> give him a full account on my box, i just want him to have a pop3 account.
> 
> I can do this on windows, but would really like to move this onto my live
> server, ideally, i'd like to be able to control the size of mailboxes, and
> would like it to be easy to admin.
> 
> Any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -Rob
> 
> 
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