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Title: 2 different domains and one e-smith box
Post by: Andrew Morris on February 21, 2001, 08:08:58 AM

Hi,

we have a requirement to install an mail solution to a customer, that we have identified e-smith as being the product of choice.

My question is this:

we have two domains registered...

company.com.au and company.co.nz

can I run e-mail for both domains, which reside within the same internal network, on the one e-smith box?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Andrew

Title: Re: 2 different domains and one e-smith box
Post by: Gordon Rowell on February 21, 2001, 08:45:08 AM

Andrew Morris wrote:
> [...]
> can I run e-mail for both domains, which reside within the
> same internal network, on the one e-smith box?

Absolutely. The users will be reachable at both domains - there is
one user community across all domains configured on the server.

Gordon

Title: Re: 2 different domains and one e-smith box
Post by: Admin on February 23, 2001, 03:26:10 AM

Yes, I have this working as Gordon stated.

Gordon I do have one issue that I would appreciate you commenting on if you could please. As in Andrew's case we have two registered domain names abc.com & xyz.com that have external web & mail provisioned by an ISP. I have abc.com set up as the e-smith domain and xyz.com defined as a virtual domain.

For inbound mail I pop off the accumulated mail via a customized fetchmail script. For outbound mail it works a-ok for all users of each domain, SMTP being the e-smith box.

The problem I have is that the external internet home page for the 2nd domain, xyz.com, is not visible from inside the network - instead they get the xyc.com i-bay when the URL www.xyz.com is used. If we use the URL www.abc.com its outside internet home page is displayed.

I understand why this is happening as you pick an i-bay to point to when you create the virtual domain. This is perfect for us with live cable/DSL access that host our own web site & mail but for the dial-up shops that house their web & mail externally what do you suggest? They would want to be able to see/review their own external web sites. For their intranet they would be fine with e-smith/xyzibay. Can I remove the e-smith action of redirecting www.xyz.com to the local server without clobbering the functioning mail?

Oh, the server is 4.1 with no patches applied.

Title: Re: 2 different domains and one e-smith box
Post by: Gordon Rowell on February 23, 2001, 03:39:55 AM

Admin wrote:
> [...]
> Can I remove the
> e-smith action of redirecting www.xyz.com to the local server
> without clobbering the functioning mail?
> [...]

Set up www.xyz.com in the "Hostnames and Addresses" panel to point to
the address of external web site.


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