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01-17-2006

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Create POP 3 Account via Shell

This may be so simple that I am overlooking it somewhere, but search as I may, I cannot find an answer anywhere!

I am running a Linux box with sendmail and many different virtual domains. I cannot however, figure out how to setup a pop3 account for a specific domain.

For example, I have a domain, test.com - via my host providers control panel, I can setup all the email accounts you could hope for, I need to figure out how to setup an email account for test.com command line. (In the end it will be used in a PHP script, but this is the starting point anyhow...)

I have root access and all that jazz to the server. I have tried doing it straight with adduser - but of course, when I sent to "user@test.com" it just gets returned, tho that user exists on the server, there is nothing that determines "user" should get mail from "user@test.com"

Not sure if I am making a mountain out of a molehill here, but I was looking for a simple command line way to do this, NON interactive, so a one line shell command or something of the like.

Any info, suggestions, links, would be much appreciated Smilie

Thanks!

Mike

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sendmailconfig

SENDMAILCONFIG(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)

NAME

       sendmailconfig - configure sendmail for Debian systems

SYNOPSIS

       sendmailconfig [--no-reload]

DESCRIPTION

       sendmailconfig is used to simplify the configuration of sendmail(8) for use on Debian systems.

       In  the	simplest  case,  you  may  run	this program to (re)configure sendmail for your Debian system at any time. It will modify the file
       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc in order to create a working sendmail configuration which will be written to the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.

       For advanced configurations, you can modify the sendmail.mc file before generating sendmail.cf. Future invokations of  sendmailconfig  will
       preserve these changes provided they are made at the end of the file.

       Normally  sendmailconfig  will  ask  if	you want to reload sendmail after making changes to its configuration. The --no-reload option will
       avoid this question.

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
	      sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
	      actual sendmail configuration file

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cw
	      names for which we will accept mail in the standard configuration

       /etc/mail/sendmail.ct
	      names of trusted users in the standard configuration

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8)

AUTHOR

       Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>

								    21-Jan-1997 						 SENDMAILCONFIG(8)