From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 12 10: 1:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fap.abaid.com (fap.abaid.com [194.242.196.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5858A14EB7 for ; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:01:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from amutsch@abaid.com) Received: from wap.sam.com (abaid.dnet.it [194.242.203.121]) by fap.abaid.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA09566; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:04:57 GMT (envelope-from amutsch@abaid.com) Received: from localhost (amutsch@localhost) by wap.sam.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04710; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:01:55 GMT (envelope-from amutsch@abaid.com) X-Authentication-Warning: wap.sam.com: amutsch owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 20:01:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Andreas Mutschlechner X-Sender: amutsch@wap.sam.com To: "Istvan A. Fulop" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: possible email conflicts while virtual hosting In-Reply-To: <382842FA.3597586D@interware.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, in your case there should be no conflict (use virtusertable), but it can be in some special cases. If you have a user info and someone is writing an email to info@domain1.com which does not exists, so the email will be sent to the user info. This happens because sendmail strips the domain, after virtusertable lookup. Greetings Andreas On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Istvan A. Fulop wrote: > 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