Multihost Mail

[Lucas Peet]

I've written a pretty good HowTo on email vhosting with MySQL, Postfix,
and Courier-IMAP.  It's what I run on my server, and works VERY well.  

It has the added benefits of being able to run in a chroot jail, and all
the email users are simply database entries - none of them are actual
accounts on the server (no entries in /etc/passwd, which helps with
security), and it's quite scalable.  Also, each domain has it's own
namespace, so you can have bob at domain1.com and bob at domain2.com, and
they're completely different users.

Each user can be turned on and off simply with a flag - you can disable
just IMAP, so the user can't log in, but mail will still be delivered
(great for non-pay customers), disable SMTP, but leave IMAP enabled (if
they want the account killed, but still need to access mail that's
currently in the account), or both.

Here's the link:

http://www.eccod.com/postfix.html

If you decide this is the way you want to go, and run into problems,
feel free to email me, and I'll do all I can to help.

-Lucas

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Dre G.
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 8:43 PM
To: Jonathan Hutchins
Cc: Brian Kelsay; Kclug
Subject: Re: Multihost Mail

I have a domain linuxjunkies.com, Its ran on dualt1s from sbc so I have
no restrictions, I do all of my own dns email server systems and
everything complete with nothing hosted or being pointed by third
parties, I don't own the t1s however they are provided to me by
cpol.net.

I am not and wont use multiple ips just for vhosting and email, there
are already a shortage of ipv4 addresses around and I only have 2 left
as options (1 used already, and I am saving the other 2 in case I need
them for additional ssl sites)

So basically I have either ldap or mysql as options and this is said to
work with mysetup,, any ideas? ldap or mysql ????

dre

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 11:24, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> Quoting "Dre G." <enabled at linuxjunkies.com>:
> 
> > I host more then 5 less then 10 sites on a regular basis and would
like to 
> > offer free email to all of them under the domain name of thier
choice 
> > since they already have free www hosting, and free= good :) so any 
> > software recommended has to work with the current setup and be free.
> 
> Do you have one IP with multiple hosts pointed to it, or one IP per
host?  Are 
> they pointed as legitimate commercial sites or through a DNS
Forwarding 
> Service?
>