[SilkySmooth]

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

[thobbes867]

what webserver software are you running.

[SilkySmooth]

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

[thobbes867]

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

[SilkySmooth]

Purely email only

[thobbes867]

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.

[thobbes867]

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