You can use the cyrus-imap daemon. It will allow you to have imap mail users (who can use a web based mail client such as squirrelmail or something similar, there are lots) who do not have a shell account on your server. Note that Cyrus is not for the faint of heart. There is a cyrus-howto document on linuxdoc.org that isn't too out of date. The Cyrus website is at: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/ Administration of a cyrus-imap server can be more of a pain, but it's the only way that I've found (with open-source software anyway) of having mail users independent of the rest of the system. Note that you can also create normal users on your box, let them access e-mail via imap, and in /etc/passwd define the users as not having a shell. This should (in theory, I have not personally tried this) give you users that can send and receive e-mail, but can't log directory into a shell on your box. Jeff On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 michael.arolan at excite.com wrote: > > Hi All - > > Sendmail. How can users be added, modified, delete from sendmail > without the user having an OS account? In other words, when I set up a > user account on Linux, the user automatically gets a mail account > right? What I would like to know is how I can create a mail account > without the user having an OS account! Any takers on this? > > Regards > > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web! > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >