From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 14:27:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308D414C16 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:27:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (solaris.puebla.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA77398; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:27:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <006501bf2c93$b4ccd280$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Istvan A. Fulop" , References: <382842FA.3597586D@interware.hu> Subject: RE: possible email conflicts while virtual hosting Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:25:47 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, There isnt such a conlict, you can have your mail server with only 1 ip address, and 20 domains in it, the mail server (I will recall sendmail for this example), sits on port 25, and it is configured to receive mail from several domains, if you want to have same usernames for different domains, thats why the virtusertable its for, just map exact email addresses to local users, like this: sales@domain1.com tom sales@domain2.com john sales@domain3.com charly etc... etc... etc... and thats it, this is how it works. In the case of apache when you use the "NameVirtualHost" directive, it will only answer to the name that you have configured, not to the ip address (it could if you want to configure the default host). Good Luck... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Istvan A. Fulop To: Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 9:51 AM Subject: possible email conflicts while virtual hosting > Hello, > > I have a question about the possibility of email-address conflicts in > case of a server hosting multiple domains. Consider a server hosting two > domains, one called domain1.com and an other one called domain2.com, > possibly using non-IP based domain resolving (as far as apache goes; I > am not sure if this matters or not in case of the mail), and both the > owners of these would want to have an email such as sales@... > (sales@domain1.com and sales@domain2.com). > > I would like to know if this results in problems or these emails can be > directed to mailboxes (and possibly to users) called "sales.domain1" and > "sales.domain2". Also, does having an IP number for each domain have any > influence on this? > > I am kind of new to these issues so I may not see the oblivious, but I'd > appreciate your help. > > Thanks in advance, > > Istvan > > -- > > "He took my stapler..." - Milton, Office Space > ---------------------------------------------- > http://web.interware.hu/ifulop > Nézzen be! - Please take a peek! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message