From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 19:58:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA17272 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:58:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA17214 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:57:54 -0800 (PST) From: sweeting@tm.net.my Received: from mail.tm.net.my (janeway.tm.net.my [202.188.0.155]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA00256 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 12:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [202.184.153.110] ([202.184.153.110]) by mail.tm.net.my (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id EAA00093; Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:21:05 +0800 (SGT) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:21:05 +0800 (SGT) X-Sender: sweeting@mail.tm.net.my Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Subject: Re: virtual sendmail domains with multiple users with same name but different domains ? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >sendmail is not the limited factor here, UNIX is. You must have unique >usernames, therefore one UNIX machine can't have two fred accounts since it >won't know which one to use when 'fred' tries to login. You can create two >accounts on the box (fredreal and fredvirt) and have virtusertable entries for >those: > >fred@virtual.com fredvirt >fred@real.com fredreal thank you for this Gregory. so it means that i can offer clients their accounts such as : sales@company1.com sales@company2.com only for _receiving_ since i can then route these to their individual users. i can live with that - i will just have to make sure that i keep track of the users on the machine. (and all those faqs etc now make perfect sense) thank you very much for putting me straight on this one ! (and apologies to everyone if this was a real dimbo question) chas