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[ILUG] Setting up mail accounts

[ILUG] Setting up mail accounts

Nils Olofsson lists at olofsson.tv
Thu Apr 21 21:49:21 IST 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 21:36 +0100, Colin O'Keeffe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Postfix, courier-pop as directed by the O'Reilly LinuxCookbook
> 
> I added postmaster:root and root: root at mydomain.com into the
> /etc/aliases which postfix's config file is pointed to and then did
> makealiases
> 
> my question is, how do i setup more accounts for my users and set
> thier passwords , etc.? and whats the password supposed to be for the
> root mail account? i tried the root password but that doesnt work....
> 
> 
> thanks...
just create user accounts. eg ¨adduser john¨ /or whatever your distro
uses for account creation and that about it, don´t forget to set the
password for the accounts.
nils








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