RE: Re: Thanx for the "Virtual" help!

[George Joseph T <shibu@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Sahil Gupta - NET4U wrote:

Hi,

> Do I have to specify anywhere in sendmail.cf as to where
> /etc/mail/virtualusertable is located?

No.  It is already specified in sendmail.cf

> Also where do we make the map? Prompt?

In the /etc/mail directory (prompt)

Regards

George

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-delhi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:linux-delhi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of George
> Joseph T
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:47 PM
> To: linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: vinod abraham
> Subject: [linux-delhi] Re: Thanx for the "Virtual" help!
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Vinod,
> 
> I believe you need this solution for providing POP3 services to users
> based on their domain names and some of the user names are clashing
> whereas in Linux you can only create one identical user id.
> 
> For this in /etc/mail/virtusertable you will have to create a table like
> this:
> 
> xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx         user1
> xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx         user2
> xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx         user3
> 
> and make the map using the command
> 
> makemap hash virtusertable.bd < virtusertable
> 
> Now with adduser you will have to create the user accounts user1, user2
> and user3 (three different users)
> 
> In the /etc/sendmail.cf file you will have to add the entries for alias
> host under the Alias option or you can make a seperate sendmail.cw file
> for this, see documentation for sendmail.cw, but the easier option will be
> to add the following lines to your sendmail.cf file.
> 
> Cw virtualdomain1.com
> Cw virtualdomain2.com
> Cw virtualdomain3.com
> 
> Now restart sendmail with the command
> 
> killall -1 sendmail
> 
> Now you will see that mail addressed to xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx going to
> the user user1, mail addressed to zyx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx going to user
> user2 and so on.  ITS THAT SIMPLE
> 
> This will solve your problem.  For the three different users you will have
> to give three different user id's and password whereas their email address
> will be as you have defined in the virtusertable (that looks identical
> apart from the domain name)
> 
> Cheers !!
> 
> George Joseph
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:21:04
> From: vinod abraham <vinodab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: shibu@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Thanx for the "Virtual" help!
> 
> Dear Shibu,
> Thanx for ur prompt help on virtual hosting in regard to sendmail.
> It gave more details than the sendmail.org site.
> however i am still not clear as to how the mails for say
>   xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   xyz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     would be segregated as userid is same and "adduser"  may create only one
> account "xyz".
> Pls clarify.
> Regards.
> Vinod Abraham
> DGM Internet services,Enk
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