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I can never remember how to add users to Postfix, mostly because I don't have to do it often enough to commit it to memory. Here it is...hopefully I can remember where I wrote it down next time...

These instructions assume a new user named 'new_user'. Credit to falko and his post on howtoforge for part of this code.

Create the new Unix user, and assign him to the 'users' group

root@jupiter:/home# useradd -d /home/new_user -g users new_user


Give the new user a password in the system

root@jupiter:/home# passwd new_user


Actually create the 'home' folder for your new user (/home/new_user)

root@jupiter:/home# mkdir new_user


Create the 'Maildir' folder inside your user's home folder

root@jupiter:/home# mkdir new_user/Maildir


Change the ownership of the new home folder to 'new_user' in the 'users' group. The '-R' switch tells this command to change ownership of all the contents of the /home/new_user too!

root@jupiter:/home# sudo chown new_user:users -R new_user