It is rumored that on or about 2002-09-09 1:29 PM -0700, Geoff Canyon wrote as follows: >I think I already know the answer to this, but I want to confirm it, >and find out why this is so. > >I want to be able to handle mail for several different domains, >hopefully from a single server running SIMS. My understanding is >that this isn't really possible with SIMS (or any mail server?). I >can fake it in various ways, but all of them involve some sort of >limitation: no two accounts in different domains can have the exact >same account name -- or workarounds: aliasing mail accounts, which >still shows up on the POP side of things. > >For comparison: I have MacHTTP installed on a computer. Several >domains are pointed at the server. MacHTTP is smart enough to note >the domain name of an incoming request, and serve the resulting page >from the folder designated for that site. > >Is a simple setup like that possible with an SMTP/POP server? Is it >possible with SIMS? What's the best way to go for this. >-- > >regards, > >Geoff Canyon
Geoff In MacHTTP I am willing to bet that you point the separate domains to different root folders. So you could say that no two root folders could have the same name - they must be unique. In much the same way with SIMS you need to do domain level routing to point an account in a particular domain to a uniquely named local account. The best way to do this is to establish a prefix or suffix "rule" for the account names. Example email addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Example SIMS accounts: fred-1 fred-2 Example router entries (foreign aliasing): <*@firstdom.com> = *-1 <*@seconddom.com> = *-2 This will accomplish what you want to do. Your clients need to POP from the account fred-1 or fred-2, but they can set their Reply-To addresses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] respectively. Using a suffix or prefix rule makes account maintenance easy. You could assign any arbitrary but unique string to each account - but then you would need a routing entry for every one. You could also use a longer, more meaningful string for the suffix. -- Neil Neil Herber, RGD Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ Eton Systems, 15 Pinepoint Drive, Nepean, ON, Canada K2H 6B1 Tel: (613) 829-4668 ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
