[ale] mail server program

[Jay Finch]

Personally, I use Sendmail with Linuxconf.  Linuxconf provides a nice GUI 
aspect to administering all sorts of system functions within your box, as 
well as giving an easily configurable Sendmail option.  (I currently host 
about 14 domains, some with "discrete" E-mails, others without.)

If you choose to not use the "Virtual Domain" functions, then it will 
default to the user list you have on your box.  (Ex: I host larp.com and 
bck.org -- If you send an E-mail to horus at bck.org or horus at larp.com, it 
comes to my main account since I don't have a VDomain setup for bck.org ... 
A 3rd domain I host, radiojay.com, DOES have a Vdomain setup, so if you 
mail horus at radiojay.com it pre-processes it and sends mail to 
horus at larp.com ...)

Make sense?

In a nutshell -- Sendmail with Linuxconf will solve your Vdomain problems. :)

Cheers!
Jay

At 03:12 PM 11/2/1999 -0500, Brian K. Murphy wrote:
>I currently run a NT based mail server (I-mail by Ipswitch).  It is a royal
>pain in the butt to administer.  Not to mention I just don't like NT
>software.  So...here is what I want to do.  I need to set up a Linux based
>mail system.  I have looked at sendmail, qmail and a few others.  One thing
>I am very confused about is "virtual domain" support.  Under just about any
>NT mail program you can receive mail for multiple domains....powerh.net and
>perdido.com for example.  I don't really see that under any Unix programs,
>and if I do see it, it seems to be very kludgy.  You can trick sendmail to
>get mail for multiple domains, but everyone in all domain must have a
>distinct mailbox ...for example with the two domains listed above you
>couldn't have bob at powerh.net and bob at perdido.com on the same system because
>they would have the same mailbox.  Am I all wrong about this, or is there a
>program that provides a good, clean, easy to administer, not to complex to
>install, solution to this??
>
>Keith Murphy
>
>PowerHouse Communications

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