Topic: Looking for email domain lists howto...

[Holger]

Hi

I'm maintaining a site (i.e. a virtual domain) for a group of friends - no problems there.
We would like to all have email addresses using that domain (let's say @ourgroup.com) and just forward to our regular addresses. I would also like to avoid being forced to make user accounts on my box for all of them.

How do I do that?
http://www.dungog.net has a lot of neat contribs for e-smith regarding email but I have not been able to find one for my specific need.
Is SmartList perhaps the best solution?
Has anyone done a SMartList contrib or howto for e-smith?
Suggestions are welcome

Thx!

Holger

[Lloyd Keen]

Is this the one you're after:
http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/vdomain-alias-howto.html

[Holger]

Thx for the input - that is however not exactly what I'm looking for.

I guess my gripe is just generally how e-smith handles email with regards to virtual domains.
It is default behaviour in esmith that makes a new layer of addresses when you add another virtual domain.
Let's say I have two user: fred elma
They have accounts at my primary domain:
fred@domain1.com
elma@domain1.com

If I add one more domain then they will automatically also have:
fred@domain2.com
elma@domain2.com

And so on for every domain I ever add - plus all the funny combinations of first + last names.

I'm looking for:
1 - no automatic duplicates of email users in new/virtual domains
2 - only very simple email forwarding "accounts" on new/virtual domains

So that when I make a new domain "domain3.com" there is no email accounts to start with. But I can choose to make an "alias":
fred@domain3.com -> fred@domain1.com
customersupport@domain3.com -> elma@domain1.com
dennis@domain3.com -> dennis.hansen@some_external_domain.com

I think you get the drift.....
My guess is that a lot of other people are frustrated with the current email clutter.

I suspect that this may so simple that old time *nix gurus just say "Oh - is that all you want? You just edit....", but I'm afraid I'm fairly clueless in this field.

Holger

[Nate]

The virtual domain is 'virtual'.  When you create a virtual domain, email going to that domain that hits the server is accepted.  E-smith is set up with a single set of users for the domain and virtual domains.  You want e-smith to have a domain and additional domains with a set of users for each additional domain(it wounldn't be a virtual domain--it would be another domain).  Changing all that would be a fairly big task. Virtual domains works fine 99 percent of the time--the only trouble is when you have more than one user with the same name.  

fred@domain3.com -> fred@domain1.com (already done when you create the virtual domain)

customersupport@domain3.com -> elma@domain1.com(add pseudonym customersupport - elma)


dennis@domain3.com -> dennis.hansen@some_external_domain.com(account dennis must exist and set it to forward to dennis.hansen@some_external_domain.com) --it's normal for any e-mail server to require an account before it will forward to another external domain.

[Holger]

Thanks for the input!

...but I can make qmail forward to an external address by making an alias:
echo "dennis.hansen@some_external_domain.com" > ~alias/.qmail-dennis

except that I haven't yet figured out how to _only_ do this for domain3.com.

I also have a suspicion that this is considered _bad_ practice.

I'll go look elsewhere in the forum for howto make a pseudonym for only one domain.

[Holger]

ok - I've done it the hard way now making a user account for all users in the new domain:
user1dom3
user2dom3
user3...  etc.

But I need a list alias now and the howto above doesn't mention how to do this...
like:
all@domain3.com
Should not go to all@domain1.com but my alldom3 group

[k_graham]

If you join www.mydomain.com you can have all the free email forwarding that you want. The following is basically free though they do ask you to extend your domain name with them.
 
MyDomain Plus - Advanced Management Tools
For the advanced user, MyDomain Plus gives you all of MyDomain Basic features plus you can set hostnames, IP addresses, MX records and CNames - all for free and you still won't see any ads on your domain redirection or emails. Like the standard service, MyDomain Plus features also include free Standard/Stealth URL Forwarding, free Email Forwarding and free Title/Keywords/Description Meta Tags. Also includes free dns for your domain names.

I am not affiliated with the above company but do find it provides some very useful features for me.

Ken

[Holger]

k_graham,
I appreciate you trying to help, but if you study my questions you'll see that your suggestion is nowhere near a solution to my problem.