Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development

38.9. Editing Mail User Assignments

Qmail's mail user assignment feature allows you to create “fake” mailboxes that can receive email just like real UNIX users. Each user assignment defines an additional mailbox, and has an associated UNIX username, UID, GID, and home directory in which the mail file and .qmail files are located. They are most useful if you want to avoid having to create a UNIX account for every mailbox on your system, or if you want to direct mail to multiple users into the mailbox of a single real UNIX user.

To create a new mail user, follow these steps:

1.	On the module's main page, click on the Mail User Assignments icon. A page listing existing assignments will be displayed, with a form at the top for creating a new one ...