[ale] Anyone have experience hosting email for multiple domains?

Richard Bronosky Richard at Bronosky.com
Mon Aug 31 12:54:05 EDT 2009


Brandon, that knocked it out of the park. I've just skimmed it so far,
but you have the best documentation I've seen. I'm so glad I asked.
You just blew my mind... Like a Boss!

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Brandon
Checketts<brandon at brandonchecketts.com> wrote:
> I run a mail hosting service using Postfix and Dovecot and have a howto
> set up at http://www.brandonchecketts.com/centos-mail-toaster.php  that
> details the basic configuration.   I use that about once a month when
> setting it up for somebody else and make small changes as new package
> versions are released, so it should be pretty accurate and  I know it
> works on CentOS 5.3.   Account credentials are stored in a MySQL backend
> and it uses PostfixAdmin to manage the database of users.  I run several
> hundred mailboxes off of it, and it works out great.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon Checketts
>
>
>
>
> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> I'd like to avoid reliving your horror stories. I'm a big fan of
>> "learn from the mistakes of other, don't make them yourself." So far I
>> have installed postfix and dovecot on a CentOS 5.3 slicehost slice.
>> Here are my needs (which I will compromise on if I must):
>> 1. Forward email for at least 8 domains to other services (mostly Gmail).
>> 2. Act as a secure sendmail server so that Gmail will send _from_ my
>> domain, not _on behalf of_ my domain.
>> 3. Act as 'final destination' for at least 1 domain.
>> 4. Server IMAP for final destination domain[s].
>>
>> So, any advice, good reads, etc.? I have worked through
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix and am going through
>> http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html I haven't started with
>> http://wiki.dovecot.org/VirtualUsers so I don't know if I need that
>> yet.
>>
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