Server - Email

Hi,

I currently own a virtual server purchased from Verio, I have 5 domains on this server but I am having problems with the email side of things. The server is running FreeBSD, Apache. At the moment (and I think this is the case with most servers) you can only have unique user names. Is there any software out there that I can use or modify to allow me to have more than one.

E.G At the moment I cannot have.

admin@domain1.com
admin@domain2.com

Is there any way around this?

TIA

what webserver software are you running.

I have a FreeBSD machine running Apache, Sendmail, PHP, MySQL, it has a SMTP Server, POP Server and IMAP server.

Are these users going to have shell access, or is this for email use only?

Purely email only

you could do this with virtusertable in sendmail. If you actually wanted to create regular accounts you could just create aliases to the sheel username.


I found this example for virtusertable

# Simply add the virtual email address
# and the real email address
# it should be mapped to.
# The virtual email address can be a full
# email address or a hostname.
# If it is a hostname then mail to
# that hostname will be sent to the real
# email address if none of
# the full email addresses don't match.
# This keeps mail for a virtual
# sub-hosted domain from bouncing.
#
#Virtual Email Address Real Email Address
#---------------------- ------------------
webmaster@virtual1.com user@isp.com
user@virtual1.com localuser1
virtual1.com user@isp.com
webmaster@virtual2.com localuser2
user@virtual2.com someuser@aol.com
virtual2.com localuser2



If you were using regular shell accounts then you could just alias the username to the email address

#Shell Account Email Adress
user001 joe@admin.com
user002 joe@user.com

I don't know a whole lot about sendmail but this is all that I could dig up.

sorry about the format, I didn't realize that the forum was going to strip out all of my spacing. The virtusertable and the aliases were supposed to be two columns.

Sorry