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webwizzy

3rd March 2009, 00:11

Hello,

As the title says, how do you create email accounts via SSH? (no Control panels)

I have postfix and mail server configured, I have Dovecot installed too.

Now I want to use my email client like Thunderbird to receive/send emails, and I haven't created any mailboxes yet.

Thanks

falko

3rd March 2009, 20:29

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2

webwizzy

4th March 2009, 00:51

okay.. I did read that.

But I noticed that the user I created with simple useradd myusername command got my emails working. I can easily send/receive mails from my pop3 client.

One thing is that, just like I have switched from FTP to SFTP, how do I start using something secure for emails too? Currently enabling "Secure Authentication" option doesn't work for me. There are options like TLS, SSL etc. How do I begin using them and secure my emails too?

Thankss