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Title: E-smith and virtual domains
Post by: Brian on April 03, 2003, 03:37:47 AM

I know this has been tossed around so many times on these forums,
however my question is. I want to do some hosting on my 5.5 server,
the way I understand it I cant do fred@domain1.com and fred@domain2.com.
Also all e-mail sent from webmail will use the primary domain. Is this just
the way it is. I really like e-smith and have been using it for years.
Any suggestions?

Title: Re: E-smith and virtual domains
Post by: Terry Brummell on April 03, 2003, 04:07:27 AM

By editing some templates you can have fred@domain1.com go to user Fred and fred@domain2.com go to user Bob if you wish.  Check Dareyl May's site for a how-to.
And as far as having webmail show a different "From" or "Reply-to" address have a look in the Options section once you login to an account via the webmail interface, trust me, it's there.

Terry

Title: Re: E-smith and virtual domains
Post by: Brian on April 03, 2003, 04:16:51 AM

After re-reading my post and your reply I should reword this.
 Am I going to have problems hosting multiple domains as far as e-mail goes.
 I want to have fred@doamin1.com and fred@domain2.com to be seperate.
 I would also like to have seperate webmail for them. I just want to
 sell some space and recoup some costs.

Title: Re: E-smith and virtual domains
Post by: guestHH on April 03, 2003, 07:12:58 AM

Brian,

Take a look a Stephen Noble's site: www.dungog.net

There is a commercial packages that will do what you want. Commercial in this respect is 'reasonable amount'.

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: E-smith and virtual domains
Post by: Brian on April 03, 2003, 08:37:24 AM

I dont need to forward mail from one domain to another. If I have:

  bob@domain1.com
  bob@domain2.com
  bob@domain3.com

  And these are three different people, how do I do this?  

 I need to be able to have multiple domains and give each domain e-mail
addresses. I would like them to be able to pick any username.

Title: Re: E-smith and virtual domains
Post by: Bill Talcott on April 03, 2003, 07:48:33 PM

In short, the virtual domains are just alternate names for the same server. By default "bob" is an account on the system, accessible via domain1.com, domain2.com, or domain3.com. I think all the solutions so far involve creating "bob1", "bob2", and "bob3" accounts, and having bob@domain1.com forward to bob1, bob@domain2.com forward to bob2, and bob@domain3.com forward to bob3.

I have no need for virtual domains, so I don't have any firsthand experience, but this is what I've picked up from previous posts here. I think you'd have to change a lot of stuff relating to the virtual domain and user setups to allow accounts like you want...

Title: Re: E-smith and virtual domains
Post by: Brian on April 03, 2003, 09:54:53 PM

Ahhh, the smoke is clearing. I do believe this will solve my problem.
 Thank you all.