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

Brandon Checketts brandon at brandonchecketts.com
Mon Aug 31 14:58:16 EDT 2009


Great.  Glad it helped.

Thanks,
Brandon Checketts


Richard Bronosky wrote:
> 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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