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sme only has one name set, meaning only one occurence of a same name can be in the system, whether it be a user, a group, or an ibay.
Therefore whenever you create a user account and you have multiple domains, then that user will apply to all domains automatically.
So user1 will receive email for
user1@domain1
user1@domain2
user1@domain3
user1@domain4
The problem is that you cannot have different people using the same user account name to collect email.
Using the pseudonyms panel is the only way that sme can distribute email for the same user "name@different-domain" names, but you need to use it in conjunction with the correct underlying naming concepts.
If you want something like the following (which I suspect you do), then this is how you must do it.
The golden rule is never allocate unique user names to end users accounts as these will no longer be available for globalname@domain type email address usage.
eg
create your domains eg domain1, domain2, domain3, domain4 and configure those domains to use different ibays for the web content.
You can even setup different groups to allow only different users to access each ibay to update web content etc.
create user accounts john1, john2, john3, john4 as needed for users who want the name john, but they will use the login name john1 rather than john (the login names could be johnb, johnb2, johnw, johnm etc etc)
create user accounts mary1, mary2, mary3, mary4 as needed for users who want the name mary, but they will use the login name mary1 rather than mary
create user accounts paul1, paul2, paul3, paul4 as needed for users who want the name paul, but they will use the login name paul1 rather than paul
create pseudonyms eg
john@domain1 which forwards to user john1
john@domain2 which forwards to user john2
john@domain3 which forwards to user john3
john@domain4 which forwards to user john4
mary@domain1 which forwards to user mary1
mary@domain2 which forwards to user mary2
mary@domain3 which forwards to user mary3
mary@domain4 which forwards to user mary4
paul@domain1 which forwards to user paul1
paul@domain2 which forwards to user paul2
paul@domain3 which forwards to user paul3
paul@domain4 which forwards to user paul4
ie in the pseudonyms field type the whole pseudonym name as john@domain1
Note do not use john, mary or paul for any other purpose ie as user account names or group names or pseudonym names (on its own) or ibay names.
If your want your end users to use webmail then they login in using the URL
https://domain1/webmail https://domain2/webmail https://domain3/webmail https://domain4/webmail If you want webmail to be configured for the correct domain for the correct end user the first time they use it, then you will need to do that manually yourself before issuing the login details to the user.
eg
login to webmail as the end user eg john1 (for domain1) and setup the profile for that user to show the return email address of john@domain1
login to webmail as the end user eg john2 (for domain2) and setup the profile for that user to show the return email address of john@domain2
Do the same for all other webmail accounts that will be issued configuring the profile and return address as applicable.
If you don't configure webmail profiles manually then they will have the default return address of loginusername@domain1 (or the main domain name of the server if different).
> I added new users, I created pseudonyms for domain users
> but I found this setup a little bit inconvenient.
I'm sorry but you don't have to use sme server if you find it too inconvenient. The method outlined above is the only way it can be done due to the design of sme server
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