June 25th, 2001, 06:16 AM
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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
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Proxy
June 25th, 2001, 06:30 AM
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what webserver software are you running.
June 25th, 2001, 07:16 AM
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I have a FreeBSD machine running Apache, Sendmail, PHP, MySQL, it has a SMTP Server, POP Server and IMAP server.
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-- SilkySmooth --
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Proxy
June 25th, 2001, 07:47 AM
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Are these users going to have shell access, or is this for email use only?
June 25th, 2001, 07:53 AM
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Proxy
June 25th, 2001, 08:07 AM
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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.
June 25th, 2001, 08:09 AM
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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