You are welcome!
There is a drawback to this scheme, however: when you have to resort to
creating virtual domains with mailboxes in c:\imail\users (same as for main
domain), you'll have to create two accounts for every new user who belongs
to the group of domains that exceeded 25-255 rule.
One account will be for the main domain and another one - for the virtual
domain. These accounts will share the same mailbox, so whatever is delivered
to virtual domain or its alias can be pulled from the main domain.
If you need more details, feel free to e-mail me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Madison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:25 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Limit on the Alias field
> Yuri,
>
> I had not thought of that. That will solve so many problems for me.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Yuri Levenfeld
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Limit on the Alias field
>
>
> You can double and triple 25-255 rule for domain aliases if you create
some
> virtual IP-less domains with user directories in the same place as in the
> main domain. Then the administrator can alias virtual domain(s) to his
> heart's content.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Madison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 5:58 PM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Limit on the Alias field
>
>
> > Phillip,
> >
> > I just converted a sendmail server that had 48 hosts aliases. These
> aliases
> > were all sub domains of the main domain but here is how I got around the
> > limitation. I don't know if this will work for you or not.
> >
> > Here is the whole story. I would just like to start by saying that this
> is
> > in no way how I would have desired to configure this system but it was
an
> > ugly necessity to get these users off of the crapy sendmail system they
> were
> > on. Basically I have an IMail server configured as host
mail.mydomain.com
> > with a host alias for mydomain.com. On the sendmail system there also
> > existed 48 host aliases for sub domains such as ant.mydomain.com. These
> > host aliases work just the same as host aliases in IMail. The killer
> > limitation that I ran into is that you can only have 25 host aliases
with
> a
> > max length of 255 characters on IMail. To get around this I stumbled
> across
> > the following oddity with IMail. If I point the MX for ant.mydomain.com
> to
> > the host mail.mydomain.com the server will receive mail for
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually it does not accept it for delivery at
> first
> > but accepts the message for relay. When IMail goes to relay the message
> it
> > does an MX lookup for ant.mydomain.com and receives direction back to
it's
> > self. I am theorizing that for some reason this prompts it do a local
> > delivery with mydomain.com. At any rate that's what happens. The
problem
> > here is that host mail.mydomain.com must first accept the message for
> relay.
> > Unless you want to open your system as an wide open relay you have
another
> > hurdle to cross. To get around this issue I setup a sendmail system to
> > receive mail for ant.mydomain.com. I then pointed the MX for
> > ant.mydomain.com to relay.relaysystem.com. You can configure sendmail
in
> > such a way as to have it "route" mail based on domain with out doing an
MX
> > lookup. Thus mail would come in from the Internet to the relay system
and
> > then be routed to the IMail box. I then only had to add the IP address
of
> > the relay system to the allow table on the IMail system. But I now had
> > another problem. I had changed the MX record for ant.mydomain.com to
> point
> > to the relay system and not directly to the IMail system. This broke
the
> > functionality of IMail relaying messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED] back
to
> > its self. To fix this I had to tweak the DNS host that IMail uses for
> > lookups. I had to make that host report back that the MX for
> > ant.mydomain.com directed to mail.mydomain.com. Obviously this DNS host
> can
> > not be the same host that the rest of the world looks to for MX records
> for
> > ant.mydomain.com or you break the whole thing over again. As you can
see
> > this is very elaborate and not a preferred way of configuring a mail
> system.
> > If this helps anyone out - Great. If I had my way I would ask that
IMail
> > expand the capability to allow at least a greater number of host aliases
> (50
> > aliases with 1000 character max). In a perfect world I would ask for
> > unlimited host aliases configured in a text file. Perhaps
> hostaliases.txt.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Phillip
> > Rexinger
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 1:36 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Limit on the Alias field
> >
> >
> > I am also faced with this problem... it's rather urgent that we find a
> > work-around. I have around 50 domains that all use the same server!
> >
> > If we can't find a work around... I don't think we can use this mail
> > server...
> >
> > Phillip Rexinger
> > www.adamsbusinessmedia.com
> > Director, Internet Operations
> > 68-860 Perez Road
> > Cathedral City, CA 92234
> > 760.770.4370
> > 760.770.2797 FAX
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Martha Flugstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 9:01 AM
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Limit on the Alias field
> >
> >
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > We are in the process of converting our mail system from 22
Novell
> > > servers to one IMail server. We have converted thirteen servers so
far.
> > > At the time that we converted the first server, the only way we could
> find
> > > to allow incoming mail to the old server name was to enter that name
as
> an
> > > alias for the IMail server. And, only the fully qualified host name
> would
> > > work. That is, we had to enter hostname.domainname.edu. When we
> > converted
> > > the thirteenth server this week, we reached the 255 character limit on
> the
> > > alias field. We found a workaround by removing a server name that had
> > never
> > > been officially used for mail, but we will be in trouble next week if
we
> > > don't find a solution to this. We had originally thought that if we
had
> a
> > > CNAME record in the DNS for the Novell servers that this would be
> > adequate.
> > > We do have these CNAME records in the DNS and we are able to send mail
> > > locally with no problem even to the server that is not listed as an
> alias.
> > > However, sending from a account on hotmail.com fails with the message
> "550
> > > not a local host, not a gateway" unless we have the fully qualified
> > hostname
> > > in the alias field. Does anyone know what to do about this? Thanks
for
> > > your help.
> > >
> > > Martha Flugstad
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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