Email Question

Andy Poole

Email Question

« on: April 15, 2003, 12:00:32 AM »

Hi,

I am hosting quite a few virtual domains now.

What do I do when two customers both want dave@theirdomain.com?

I know I could start using surnames but I would have thought it was possible to have two domains with users with the same name and different domain?

like:

fred@abd.com
fred@efg.com

Look forward to any replies. Thanks,

Andy

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Bill Talcott

Re: Email Question

« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2003, 02:06:27 AM »

No, virtual domains are just different ways to refer to the same system. Each user is an account on the SME, not an account for a specific domain. There's a HowTo for creating virtual domain aliases that addresses at least some of these problems...

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Scott Ainslie

Re: Email Question

« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2003, 05:53:42 PM »

Nope what you want will not work. E-Smith insists on all users being OS system users therefor a user will always be the same no matter how many domains. Unless e-mail authentication is handled by a database or LDAP etc... you will never be able to do what you want to.

Unfortunatly as mutch as I love the e-smith consept I have had to ditch it for the above functionality and a scalable solution that uses virtual domains and virtual users. Still would love for e-smith to do this but right now a RedHat 8.0 box with qmail toaster ( http://qmailtoaster.clikka.com/ ) and all is working great.

Scott

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