At 5:20 PM -0800 12/26/01, tony  imposed structure on a stream of 
electrons, yielding:
>>At 11:12 AM -0800 12/26/01, Tony  imposed structure on a stream of 
>>electrons, yielding:
>>>I'm changing over from the webstar plugin to SIMS with 75 domains 
>>>all having their own MX
>>>They're just names like a.com, b com, c.com, none are like z.a.com 
>>>or fax.c.com.
>>>How do I put these in the router?
>>>
>>>a.com = a.com
>>>b.com = b.com?
>>>+ another 73
>>>
>>>Tedious to say the least...
>>>Is there an easy way to do this?
>>
>>SIMS has a single primary domain name which is set in the general 
>>settings, and is usually a real hostname that resolves to the 
>>primary IP address of the machine SIMS is running on. All other 
>>domains are handled by mapping addresses in them to the main domain 
>>in some way. The simplest method in the router is this:
>>
>>secondary.domain = main.domain
>>
>
>Thanks...
>So I have to enter all 75 domains separately...eg
>a.com=pri.com (or *)
>b.com=pri.com (or *)
>c.com=pri.com (or *)

Each one seperately. You probably want a slightly more complex 
mapping if I understand your actual need here...

>I failed to mention that I want to be able to access all of the mail 
>from all the domains with my postmaster account


So you have 75 domains, but only one real mailbox? This is all 
possible in the router with 75 lines of this form:

<*@a.com> = postmaster


Of course, a good text tool (BBEdit and a regex search/replace could 
do it...) can turn a list of domains into all the lines you need, 
suitable for pasting into the router, in a few milliseconds.

the reason SIMS, or *any* good MTA, needs this is simple: control. 
There are some MTA's that offer a feature of trusting MX records to 
determine what mail is local. This means that if you set up the 
domain e.com and point the best MX record at a sendmail server with 
the "bestmxislocal" feature configured, it will accept mail aimed at 
*@e.com as mail for local users and attempt to deliver it. 
Unfortunately, this means that your mail server can be made to act 
like the final resting place for mail by ANYONE ON THE NET. It was 
wise of Stalker to not bother building this feature for SIMS, because 
it is effectively a security problem. For a situation like yours 
where you want all mail for all domains handled by SIMS to land in a 
single mailbox, it is completely out of the question.
-- 
Bill Cole                                  
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