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Create many email account on same domain on Linux

Dear Experts,

I got one email account, support@mysite.com , that was created
in Cpanel, now my cpanel is expired and I had no longer to use it

Now today I need to find a new way to create two more email accounts.
But I don't know how to do it . And I am using Squirrel Mail web tool
that can Not be used for creating email account.

Now my old email account is at /home/mylogin/mai/mysite/support

I tried to make the addtional email account, for example, adm@mysite.cm
by copy the folder of support to new folder of adm,

but sendmail comand could not vierfy adm@mysite.com as email account

Do you know there is some free mail tool for creating many email account
with the same domain site without Cpanel Help ? Or you have method
to do it on linux shell command

Please advise
Duncan

kerick

You should be able to just create users from command line

Example:

# adduser joe

# passwd joe

follow any prompts

This would be if your server is the said domain.

duncanb7

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but it is just going to
/var/spool/mail for newuser name
and I can find newuser name /home/newuser after adduser newuser

But I could not find anything at
/home/mylogin/mail/mysite.com/newusers folder as support
and be reminded support is not user but he also got support@mysite.com email address, why ?

sendmail -bv command could not verify it newuser@mysite.com as email account.

it output " failed to verify: No Such User Here"

now my mail folder is

at /home/mylogin/mail/mysite.com/ that is set by Cpanel before

I am using Exim as mail server

Duncan

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duncanb7

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with help from Cpanel, we can add many email address at the same doman,
for example, adm@mysite.com adm2@mysite.com...etc by following perl script

at /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/addpop and new email account folder
is created at /home/mylogin/mail/mysite.com/adm or adm2

Now I can add many email account as I want but still using Cpanel

But if users are no cpanel used before, how linux users can handle such thing

Or sendmail or postix command will help to create many email address
for the same domain name such as mysite.com.

Please advise

Duncan

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duncanb7

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Thanks of all of your reply

Have a nice day

Duncan

duncanb7

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At this moment, I may leave Cpanel on my linux since
my issue is fixed on linux shell even it is at cpanel script perl directory
, and if uninstall it I don't know what will happen, and I can not affort the risk
to reinstall Linux, re-format my hard-disk or uninstall Cpanel since my database
on existing server is big except I buy new server.

DUncan

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Sorry you still have to use cPanel, but I'm glad I was able to help you add users again.

It might be best if you get a new server at some point, migrate everything over, and then shut off the old server.