Mailing List Archive: Virtual domains w/ multiple users using pop

Christopher Seawood writes:
>
> Has anyone setup qmail to work with any pop server under several virtual
> domains with multiple users per domain?

Sure. I had a customer named Northwood Designs. I created several
accounts: nwda, nwdb, nwdc, nwdd, nwde, nwdf, nwdg [etc.]. Each of
those accounts had a maildir, and a .qmail that said "./Maildir/". I
gave their sysadmin a shell account called nwd.

Then I did:
echo 'nwdesigns.com:nwd' >>/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains

And then he did:
echo '&nwda' >~/.qmail-arthur
echo '&nwdb' >~/.qmail-betty
echo '&nwdc' >~/.qmail-caleb
echo '&nwdd' >~/.qmail-denise

And then we rested. And it was good. And then they got their own
server running NT but I don't want to talk about that.

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On 6 Feb 1997, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Christopher Seawood writes:
> >
> > Has anyone setup qmail to work with any pop server under several virtual
> > domains with multiple users per domain?
>
> Sure. I had a customer named Northwood Designs. I created several
> accounts: nwda, nwdb, nwdc, nwdd, nwde, nwdf, nwdg [etc.]. Each of
> those accounts had a maildir, and a .qmail that said "./Maildir/". I
> gave their sysadmin a shell account called nwd.
>
Ok, I forgot to mention that the domains are completely virtual. There
will be no accounts on the pop server for any of the users of any of the
domains. We have virtual domains setup in such a way that each user has
his own control file, but we have not come up with an easy way to retrieve
mail via pop as joeuser@jrandom.domain .

Regards,
Christopher
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Christopher Seawood * Software Engineer/System Admin
CEO/HGIC of Seawood Consulting * Specialized Linux Consulting
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