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From: j@interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: E-mail account without user login
Date: 18 Oct 1995 16:24:11 +0100
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote:

>Add the user, change the password to a * (like below):
>
>nobody:*:4:9:NoBody:/tmp:/bin/false

Doesn't POP3 require the password field?
-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de
					[private: http://www.sax.de/~joerg/]