At 14:52 2003-01-16 -0500, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> The mailman users are virtual (defined via the aliases.db file) [...]
> or is this not what you mean by "virtual" users?
"Virtual users" and "aliases" mean two very different things, at
least in the Postfix and Exim communities.
Sendmail as well. Aliases are username-only (no hostname), and virtual
users are names with domains (or wildcard domains), mapped to users (local
or otherwise). THEN there's "virtual users" in the sense of one's POP/IMAP
daemon, but even that should probably be managed through the MTA's virtual
user mechanism (delivering the mail to the vPOP mailboxes).
With Exim, a "virtual user" could be either a local account for a
"virtual domain" (meaning a domain for which the host takes email, but it
is not configured with that domain name in DNS)
Equivalent to sendmail "local-host-names".
or a user who does not have an actual Unix login account (as with Cyrus-IMAP).
This is what I apply "virtual user" to mean if it isn't specifcally qualified.
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