Well, it is your lucky day, or unlucky if I am wrong. However, I just
finished doing what you want to do.
I will try to make this detailed but brief.
What you are trying to do is make a POP3 Toaster (Or IMAP Toaster) with
vitural users and vitural domains. Where each user of one domain is
independent of other unrelated users on other domains. So that means
[EMAIL PROTECTED] has nothing to do with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and both get mail without
bugging each other, and more importantly, not bugging you. (IE: The first
bob as nothing to do with the second bob and their mail will be seperate of
each other.)
What my list of software and instructions will give in the end is machine
takes mail for whatever domains and put them in maildir format on your
machine.
What is cool about this setup is that you can have normal mail users like
you would regularly think of, and also have virtual users, who will never
login to the machine execpt for pop and imap. So its a duel type system
Some of the great things about this system is that you can have quotas for
vitural user based on amount of messages and/or total size of all messages
for a user. You will also only have real accounts for the vitural domains.
For example, when you host hell.com, will have a user call "hellcom" (For
example). Then VmailManger will put the vitural users in "hellcom" account.
So you can host a tons virtual domains.
The whole system is alittle clumsy at first, but it works really well and it
grows on you after a couple of days. For example, its a couple of steps to
add a new user to a virtual domain, and more steps if it is new virtual
domain you have to add.
I am kinda running out of steam, so the docs are below. Post questions and
will get replies back to the list on my second wind.
To make this system you will need all/most of these below to make this
beast.
(Note: I did not use LDAP, so that might change things.)
Unix Box that is up and working. (www.Linux.org or www.FreeBSD.org (Just to
name two))
qmail-1.03 (www.qmail.org)
tcpserve (http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html)
Courier IMAP (http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/)
OpenSSL (www.openssl.org) (Encrypted IMAP)
stunnel (http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel/) (Encrypted IMAP)
VmailManager (http://www.vmailmgr.org/)
relay-ctrl (http://em.ca/~bruceg/relay-ctrl/) (If you want to let non-local
users send mail through your server)
You need these need these patches:
qmail-103.patch (Big DNS patch. AKA: The AOL Patch. Just about required)
qmail-1.03-quotas-1.1.patch (Hard quotas error patch. If you want support
hardquota independent of VmailerManager)
big-todo.103.patch (If you have a busy high volume server)
big-concurrency.patch (If you have a busy high volume server)
qmail-etrn-0.1f.diff (If you want to support stupid Exchange people)
and the LDAP directory patch if your going to use LDAP.
Install tcpserver. Apply qmail patches to qmail.
Configure, compile and install qmail.
Configure, compile and install OpenSSL and stunnel, and then Courier IMAP
(In that order).
Get VmailManger; configure, compile and install it.
Get relay-ctrl, configure, compile and install.
Make sure to read docs to all the software. This give you a good idea of
whats going on.
>
>
> hi everybody
>
> I know this is a tense subject on the mailing list, but please bear with
> me. ;o) I haven't even INSTALLED qmail yet, but would much rather use it
on
> my RedHat 6.1 box than the stock sendmail that's full of holes. However,
my
> dilemma is that I'm going to be running multiple virtual domains on one
> qmail server and dont want to use /etc/passwd rather i am planning to use
> LDAP DIRECTORY SERVER (WHERE I CAN SPECIFY MAILMESSAGESTORE AS WELL AS
> USERS HOME DIRECTORY ) and am curious to know what steps exactly I should
> follow to get the setup completed with qmail. , I have read through the
> FAQ's and found them a little confusing. I also searched through the
> mailing list archives and am even more confused. What I'm looking for here
> is a way to set up my server to accept mail for
> domain1.com,
> domain2.com and
> domain3.com ... etc, to
> domainn.com.
> Each domain should have its own unique users.
> That is, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Is this going to be a problem? This is the issue that I fail to see
> (easily) addressed from what I've read so far for each of the domains so
> that each user can login using POP/IMAP to retrieve their mail( i am
> planning to use Maildir rather then Mailbox . I'd also like an way to
> handle Email aliasing so that
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or wherever else I
need
> it to go.
> I'm not new to Linux, but I'm new to the idea of setting up multiple
> domains on a single host using qmail and directory server , so any
> hand-holding would be appreciated. Thanks much,
>
>
> thanks in advance , with warmest regards
> Prashant Desai
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