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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Ole Andersen on February 25, 2003, 02:48:12 PM
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Hi' All
By going through the forum, i have found out that by design, it is not possible to differentiate users for virtual domains.
I can't have a mailbox for joe@vdomain1.com and another for joe@vdomain2.com.
Why is that. Is it smart, or is it something for the wishlist.
My first impression is that it is hard to host a domain for a friend and separate the accounts
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You should check out Darrell May's Virtual domain e-mail how-to:
http://www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/vdomain-alias-howto.html
Jim
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Yes, this is by design. It's a bit of a pain if you want to use the system for hosting, but it's essential to the windows file server role.
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Howdy,
I tried Darrell May's Howto instructions which are no longer on his site if you tried that URL posted in the earlier thread. His howto seems (a few users having mailer-daemon returned messages i'm still sorting out) to have worked for us (thanks Darrell!).
So i have a copy here (Thanks Google Cache! - http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:ocCuA3p683QC:www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/vdomain-alias-howto.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) for those of you who need it as well, as i have referred to it a few times already to fix some errors and edit the template.
How to set-up virtual domain e-mail aliases
Problem:
You need set-up virtual e-mail domains that support for example info@domain1.com and forward this e-mail to the appropriate recipient. For our example will send info@domain1.com to the user fred.
Step 1- Virtual Domain Set-up:
Use the e-smith-manager, Virtual domain panel to set-up the virtual domain, domain1.com. Instructions are found in the user manual.
Step 2 - Create your user:
Use the e-smith-manager, User accounts panel to set-up the user fred. Instructions are found in the user manual.
Step 3 - Create users .qmail-default:
In the users home directory, /home/e-smith/files/users/fred create a file named .qmail-default containing only one line, the users name, fred.
pico /home/e-smith/files/users/fred/.qmail-default
- add the one word fred
- save the file
Step 4 - Set the ownership and rights on .qmail-default to the user only:
chown fred:fred /home/e-smith/files/users/fred/.qmail-default
chmod 644 /home/e-smith/files/users/fred/.qmail-default
Step 5 - Create a templates-custom fragment:
mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
pico /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains/90aliases
In this 90aliases file enter all your virtual aliases in the form alias:username. In the example below info@domain1.com is to go to user fred.
info@domain1.com:fred
If you want all domain mail going into one account, enter your virtual alias in the form domain:username. In the example below domain1.com:fred sends all @domain1.com mail to user fred.
domain1.com:fred
If you want all domain mail going into one account, except for defined users, enter your virtual aliases in the form shown below. In the example below domain1.com:fred sends all @domain1.com mail to user fred except for jim and bob who get their mail directly..
domain1.com:fred
jim@domain1.com:jim
bob@domain1.com:bob
Step 6 - Save the file above and execute a console-save:
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
This recreates the file var/qmail/control/virtualdomains with the above alias entries preceeding the domain entries.
Step 7 - Restart Qmail:
Issue the command "killall -HUP qmail-send" to restart qmail and re-read in the updated var/qmail/control/virtualdomains file.
killall -HUP qmail-send
or
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail.init restart
Step 8 - Test the above virtual aliases:
Send an e-mail to info@domain1.com to test that it is received by the qmail server without error and reach the intended recipient (fred) mailbox.
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Info now located here!
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/howto/vdomain-alias-howto.html
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My only question - which SME server packages can be modified using this How-to?
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/mitel/howto/vdomain-alias-howto.html
4.x? 5.x? 5.x.x? ALL?
OC
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ok, i think i got it working for all users of the virtual domain.
my miss was that i did not do steps 3 & 4 for all users. and to make sure to put in the account username, not an alias or the persons real name, in the .qmail-default file.
how would one setup a virtual domain email configuration so that you would have a seperate pop account if the user didnt want their primary domain and virtual domain messages mixed together?
probably to just make a new user account and create a .qmail-default in there corresponding to the username and then add them to the aliases template in step 5 huh?
did i answer my own question? :D
Thanks.