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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!gail.ripco.com!dr From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: hosting several domains for mail Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Date: 2 Dec 1996 06:57:40 GMT Organization: Ripco Communications Inc. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <57tul4$a71$1@gail.ripco.com> References: <849473161.2116@dejanews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rci.ripco.com X-URL: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:31892 comp.mail.misc:32093 In article <849473161.2116@dejanews.com>, <greg@lightningweb.com> wrote: >I need mail to work for several domains on the same server. Like, >bob@lightningweb.com and bob@cagle.com should go to nefertiti.lightningweb.com. The first thing to do is make sure the 'most preferred' (lowest number) MX server in the DNS for each machine is nefertiti.lightningweb.com, this will get the mail into the mail transport agent on nefertiti. All mail servers (Smail,Sendmail,Qmail, etc) can support multiple domains. I just hacked this feature into a sendmail (ugh) based Linux (ugh^2) system by using /etc/maildomains and procmail, but I'm not proud of that... The _best_ way I've found to do what you ask is to install the most recent version of Qmail and read the FAQ file that comes with it- it makes handling mail for many domains easy. QMAIL WEB SITE: http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html -- David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased dr@ripco.com (312) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!