[linux-help] Re: Mail Server Question

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Curtis Hawthorne
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 3:02 PM
> To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [linux-help] Mail Server Question
>
>
> I have a mail server and I want to host websites and
> e-mail for multiple domains (let's say domain1.com and
> domain2.com).  How do I seperate the e-mail address
> from the username on the server?  For instance, if I
> have bob@xxxxxxxxxxx and bob@xxxxxxxxxxx, how do I
> keep them seperate?

You can use the virtusertable to map those names to specific users on your box,
ie bob@xxxxxxxxxxx => bob1  bob@xxxxxxxxxxx => bob2, etc.  Or you can forward
the mail to an account on a different box. You can also use a wildcard to map
any incoming messages to a domain to an individual user.  However, using normal
unix mailboxes there is no way of having multiple 'bobs' on your server.  There
may be some specialized software that can get you around this limitation, but so
far I haven't seen any open source solutions.

--dwh

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Dale W Hodge - dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Secretary & Website Maintainer - info@xxxxxxxxx
Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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