Linux Mail Server

[Cyber Source]

you can use the virtusertable in sendmail for that and use /etc/aliases 
to forward mail, etc.

Timothy J. Finucane wrote:

>"same email name in multiple domains" - this is what I'll need to do.
>
>Tim
>
>On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:19, Robert Meyer wrote:
>  
>
>>Well, actually, you have two choices.  You can use multiple virtual domains so
>>that you can use the same email name in multiple domains or you can just simply
>>tell your server to accept mail for all of the domains in question and have a
>>single user name space.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Bob
>>--- "Timothy J. Finucane" <speljamr at speljamr.com> wrote:
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>>
>>>Thank you for all the responses so far. It has given me plenty of new
>>>material to research. 
>>>
>>>Users will require both IMAP and POP access, as well as webmail. The
>>>typical setup of a web hosting environment. This means I will need to
>>>set it up in a virtual hosting type configuration to handle multiple
>>>domains.
>>>
>>>Tim
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
>>>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.    Benjamin Franklin
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:22, Robert Meyer wrote:
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>>>
>>>>Well, you've probably hit on the single most religious topic in Linuxland. 
>>>>There are adherents to sendmail, qmail, exim, postfix... Each has it's
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>>>>
>>>benefits
>>>      
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>>>>and tradeoffs.  I personally use sendmail.  I'm comfortable with it, I've
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>been
>>>      
>>>
>>>>working with it for a zillion years (well, maybe not a zillion but it seems
>>>>like it) and it does everything that I need.  I attach ClamAV and
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Spamassassin
>>>      
>>>
>>>>milters to it, and use procmail to make nice maildir format mailboxes if
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I'm
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>>>>using Courier IMAP.  Otherwise, I just let it make mbox format mailboxes
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>>>>
>>>and
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>>>>everything just works.
>>>>
>>>>Warning to the populace at large:  This IS a religious topic.  Keep
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>>>>
>>>responses
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>>>>to technical reasoning, not "my MTA is better than your MTA 'cuz I say so
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>>>>
>>>and
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>>>>you're a weenie for not agreeing...". :-)
>>>>
>>>>We need more information from you, however.  We need to know how your users
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>>>are
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>>>>going to be accessing mail, whether they use the local system, directly,
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>>>>
>>>IMAP,
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>>>>POP, webmail, etc.  We also need to know if the domains are going to have
>>>>virtual users so that if you're using things like 'info at domain1.com',
>>>>'info at domain2.org', etc. we can determine if you're going to need virtual
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>>>users
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>>>>or whatever.
>>>>
>>>>Cheers!
>>>>
>>>>Bob
>>>>
>>>>--- "Timothy J. Finucane" <speljamr at speljamr.com> wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>My company has decided to move our current mail servers to a Linux based
>>>>>platform. We are planning on setting up one server dedicated to being
>>>>>the mail server for multiple domains. Can anyone out here point me to
>>>>>some good reference materials I can use to learn about setting up a
>>>>>Linux mail server? Outside of sendmail, are there is there any other
>>>>>software used to run a mail server?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>Tim
>>>>>
>>>>>-- 
>>>>>They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
>>>>>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.    Benjamin Franklin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>
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