Please consider this friendly suggestion: Bring up an SMTP Pre-processor.
I use Qmail. I hear tell Postfix is better, though... but with my Qmail setup there are three files... one is rcpthosts which lists all the domains it accepts mail for. There's a database called morecrpthosts.cdb if the first text file gets too big. I have about 500 domains in my setup (too many for the text file). So the 64 busiest are in the rcpthosts list and the rest in morecrpthosts. I think the database is basically unlimited. I have third file called smtproutes, which pairs up domains with where to route them. So if a given customer uses 50 domain names for the same mail server... say virtual1.com through virtual50.com all really go to mail.realdomain.com the routing file might look like: virtual1.com:mail.realdomain.com virtual2.com:mail.realdomain.com ... virtual50.com:mail.realdomain.com Then on the Imail side, mail.realdomain.com needs no aliases. Qmail and Postfix are both free...and they run like a scared French Skating Judge on FreeBSD. The hardware is cheap... so...if you got enough customers to need more than 25 aliases or the aliases would fill up that Registry field... then I would assume you got the capital coming in to front for a FreeBSD box and someone to set up Postfix or Qmail on it. Need I mention the great benefit of Len Conrad in this list? He's worked out all the spins and jumps with his IMgate system for ya. That's what I suggest.... Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 8:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] host aliases > > > thanks. > this is great that a $1290 product's UI limits fields like this to 255 and > does not give any error messages or mention this on the screen nor in the > help file. Rather it makes you go to the registry? What a POS. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:06 AM > Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] host aliases > > > > >255 characters is max field length. > > > > I've been able to "overclock" this up to over 400 chars (probably > > works <=512) by adding the key directly into the Registry. > > > > Sandy > > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > to be removed from this list. > > > > An Archive of this list is available at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
