"French, Michael" wrote:
> I have qmail setup with one domain name foo.com (names changed of
> course), but my company wants to add its mail for its domain name to the
> system. The domain for my company is company.com and it is being hosted by
> Infi.net so the domain name company.com is already registered and pointing
> to their servers. As of right now, they foward all of our mail to I-Serv
> out in Utah (our previous domain host) where we still pop in and get mail.
> I think that all I need to do is have them change their MX records to point
> to my machine instead of I-Serv's, is that correct?
Yes, who ever holds your dns zone must change the MX record to your mail
server and make sure that they are no longer forwarding the mail to the
other isp...if you don't it would be pretty ugly. ;)
> On my end, I think I need to setup a virtual domain. This is where
> I get really confused. I don't want everyone here at my company to have
> real accounts, so I am planning on using vpop from Inter7.com. I have
> installed vpop. When I setup the virtual domain, do I need to point it to
> the vpopuser (the account created for vpop)?
> Entry in virtualdomains:
> company.com:vpopuser
>
> If I do this, will this send all mail for company.com to vpopuser?
> If so, do I just setup all users for company.com in the vpop user table and
> then they will be able to receive mail? Am I missing anything?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have found this list to be
> very helpful over the last few weeks. Thanks!
Vpopmail is a good choice. I use it here and love it. It is very easy
to add domains and add users in each domain and etc.
I would suggest that you configure it so that all domains are virtual
including your own. It will have a directory under vpopmail called
domains. The directories under that will be the domain name of each
virtual domain you are hosting. Then under that will be a separate
passwd database and each user will have their own directory. For
example if you have domain.com and a user called user it would look like
this.
/path to your vpopmail root directory/domains/domain.com/user
So once you are done every domains will have it's own directory with
it's own individual user directories. So each person will have their
own pop3 passwords and user directories with out having an entry in the
systems /etc/passwd file.
Here is a web site that will help with the setup.
www.inter7.com/vpopmail/vpopmail.html
Hope this helps,
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Dale Miracle
System Administrator
Teoi Virtual Web Hosting
