Disable email for system user ?

[timekiller]

Hello,
I purchased and installed DA last night and I'm now getting familiar with it's features. Overall I am very impressed so far (although I wish the mta was qmail over exim). One thing I would like to "fix" is that I don't want the site admin to get set as an email user too. I prefer to keep system and email users separate. One big reason for this is, if I create a user 'foo' with the domain 'bar.com', then create an email account [email protected], those 2 users now have different email login names. foo will not append his domian name, where foo2 will. To avoid this confusion, I prefer to make _ALL_ email users virtual. and the ftp login just doesn't have email. Is this setup possible with DA ?

-sorry, just realized I created this in the wrong forum, feel free to move it.

 

[jlandes]

To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible with DA. It will always create an email account for the system user. However, I'm willing to be told that I am wrong.

 

[timekiller]

well i figure i can disable system users by editing the exim.conf, but i don't think that will stop them from a) showing up in the email user list and b) counting against the domains allotted email count.

just looking for a way around this...

 

[nobaloney]

although I wish the mta was qmail over exim

Well, you can't have everything. Or at least you can't have an MTA that hasn't been worked on by the author for almost ten years, and is distributed under a license that (a) gives you no perpetual rights, and (b) no rights to distribute your changes, security updates, etc., except as patches to source code which must be compiled on each server separately, and therefore, while others have created great security, anti-spam, etc., fixes for it, you're still stuck with the original source code for each install.

But I understand .

One thing I would like to "fix" is that I don't want the site admin to get set as an email user too. I prefer to keep system and email users separate.

There are a lot of us who agree with you. But site-owner users are system users, and of course system users can get mail, and often do, from scripts, etc. In fact, unless the site-designer is really good at making sure otherwise, the system user is going to be used to send automated mail from many scripts used on many sites.

One big reason for this is, if I create a user 'foo' with the domain 'bar.com', then create an email account [email protected], those 2 users now have different email login names. foo will not append his domian name, where foo2 will. To avoid this confusion, I prefer to make _ALL_ email users virtual. and the ftp login just doesn't have email. Is this setup possible with DA ?

No. If it were, where would you want the incoming email to the system user sent?

For what it's worth, I'm a bear on unnecessary support; I write a carefully detailed system information email (some people call it a welcome email) to explain the difference.

-sorry, just realized I created this in the wrong forum, feel free to move it.

Moved.

Jeff