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Re: Q: virtual domains in sendmail with webmin?
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From: Grant P. <gr...@th...> - 2002-10-17 21:05:38
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Hi All, I am currently in the middle of investigating this whole (exact) issue. What I understand so far is that it is possible to route same user name e-mails on one box with multiple domains example: us...@th... us...@th... What I understand so far is that you route the e-mail from sendmail VIA domain table, then, using procmail your deposit the mail into the virtual POP account box which is no more than a file in the primary users ddirectory. Then, vpop3d looks at a login for the domain, then uses the username to retrieve the e-mail from the correct user file. Of course, this means there must be passwd files in the domain directory for each seperate domain. In fact, I am getting quotes from reedmedia.com to have my whole server modified this way. My stubling block right now is Spamassassin and Sanitizer. -Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd South" <ts...@cl...> To: <web...@li...> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Q: virtual domains in sendmail with webmin? > Matt Kehler wrote: > > > >r. On a system > > >with virtual e-mail domains, you can have ro...@do..., > > >ro...@do..., and so on until you run out of disk space. These > > >are not aliases. They are physical mailboxes with real storage space > > >listed in real folders for each domain. When ro...@do... > > >logs in he/she does not get any other e-mail than that in the mailbox > > >for the account. While forwarding and aliases still are available, > > >they do not compensate for the need to distinguish between physical > > >mailboxes, IMO. If this doesn't describe the difference(s) then > > >someone else might need to chime in as I don't know how to say it > > >any better. > > > > Thats what I currently DO have...(or did have), ie, on my box i had > > > > - userID"s 'user1' and 'user2', separate mailboxes, folders, etc > > - email accounts for the above as jo...@do... and > > jo...@do... . works fine. > > - email sent to us...@do... or us...@do... is invalid, same > > as us...@do... or us...@do... > > > > I think thats what your saying, right? Not sure how i did it..as i'm > > not that well versed in sendmail, but it DOES work. > > > > Now I'm REALLY confused!!! :) > > > > thanks > > Matt > > That's why they pay us the big bucks, Matt! > > Real world example for you: > > I have a box, with the primary domain name of talesofadventure.com. > I also have my mom's domain, houseofhenri.com and a PSA domain, > freehandsource.com on the box. Using the vpop3d and vdeliver utilities > under linuxconf, they ALL have their own SEPARATE storage space > with something like: > > /var/spool/mail/ <-- handles normal e-mail for primary domain > /var/spool/mqueue/ <-- handles normal domain queuing for primary > /var/spool/vdeliver/ <-- handles virtual domain e-mail queuing > /var/spool/vmail/freehandsource.com/ <-- virtual domain spool stops > /var/spool/vmail/houseofhenri.com/ <-- virtual domain spool stops > > /etc/aliases <-- sendmail aliases file > /etc/vmail/aliases.freehandsource.com <-- virtual domain aliases file > /etc/vmail/aliases.houseofhenri.com <-- virtual domain aliases file > > /etc/passwd <-- if you don't know > /etc/shadow <-- ditto > /etc/vmail/passwd.freehandsource.com > /etc/vmail/passwd.houseofhenri.com > /etc/vmail/shadow.freehandsource.com > /etc/vmail/shadow.houseofhenri.com > > /home/user1/ <-- user directory > /home/user2/ <-- user directory > /vhome/freehandsource.com/home/user1/ > /vhome/freehandsource.com/home/user2/ > /vhome/houseofhenri.com/home/user1/ > /vhome/houseofhenri.com/home/user2/ > > Each domain then has it's own SMTP IP to log in. > > mail.talesofadventure.com 209.216.249.11 > mail.freehandsource.com 209.216.249.133 > mail.houseofhenri.com 209.216.249.132 > > Logging into the appropriate IP on port 25 tells vpop3d which > domain to assign the session to for operations. > > When us...@fr... logs in he will connect to a totally > different e-mail box than us...@ho..., etc. That's what > I am trying to make stable. This way, the average user will be able to > support multiple domain logins on one linux box. This is not possible > with normal sendmail due to the single repository of mailbox queues. > Obviously (to me), since there is no standard for doing this on sendmail > Jamie has not implemented a way to do it! Webmin does completely > support what sendmail does do. > > However, if you have a way to support multiple domain logins with > normal sendmail that accomodates this scenario I know a few thousand > people that would like to know! > > Todd > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: viaVerio will pay you up to > $1,000 for every account that you consolidate with us. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4749864;7604308;v? > http://www.viaverio.com/consolidator/osdn.cfm > - > Forwarded by the Webmin mailing list at web...@li... > To remove yourself from this list, go to > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webadmin-list > |