[freeside] E-Mail

ivan ivan at 420.am
Sat May 5 01:40:23 PDT 2001


On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:46:14PM -0700, rdailey at colusanet.com wrote:
> Well, thank you all for your help.  We've got freeside up and running and 
> have been using it for a bit, quite happily.  A very nice piece of 
> software, indeed.  Thank you, Ivan, for everything.
> 
> Not to seem as though I was buttering you up, but I want to have new users 
> get an E-Mail account with their dial-up.  No shell, no way.  Do I need to 
> set their shell to a fake?

Sure.  There's tons of ways to provision email accounts without shell
access; how to setup the *rest* of your ISP is outside the scope of
Freeside.  :)  If you don't expect to have more than 60k users soon, one
good way is to set their shell to a "fake", as you say.

> I'm assuming that the necessary files will be 
> exported as part of the svc_acct.export or svc_acct_sm.export scripts and 
> into the export.* directory, as the users file.

htdocs/docs/export.html

-- 
meow
_ivan



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