chester c young wrote:
trying to understand locals and hosteddomains, is the following correct?
locals is a single file; hosteddomains is a directory whose files are
catenated together.
Yes.
hosteddomains is a superset of locals.
No. A domain is either one or the other, not both.
However, "esmtpacceptmailfor.dir" contains all of the domains in both as well as domains for which that instance of Courier will accept and relay mail (backup MX, for example), so it's a superset of locals and hosteddomains.
the format of each is the same, typically
mydomain.com
.mydomain.com
the second representing all subdomains of mydomain.com
I'm not sure if hosteddomains accepts the second example.
hosteddomains must include each hostname with DNS AAAA, A or MX to this
machine. (locals, if no hosteddomains).
Also no, explained above.
the primary difference is that mail accounts using local domains do not
need to specify the domain as part of the mail address. conversely,
there cannot be two local domains having the same mail user, eg, there
cannot be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For clarity: if both domain1.com and domain2.com are listed in the "locals" file, then [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are the same account.
hosteddomains is sync'd with makehosteddomains;
locals is sync'd with makealiases.
Nothing syncs locals, AFAIK. You do, however, have to add any new domain to esmtpacceptmailfor.dir and run "makeacceptmailfor".
------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
