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Re: Exim confiuration for virtual hosts



On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:42:09AM +0930, John Pearson wrote
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:36:05PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote
> > Has anyone installed exim to provide mail serives to a number of domains. I
> > have a webserver running virtual hosts and I would like to provide mail
> > serives for those domains. Exim is running fine for sending mail buit I
> > would like to receive the mail for those domains and put all the mail for
> > each domain into the user account for that domain.
> > Thanks for any help you can offer.
> > 
> 
> Here's how I do it.
> The virtual hosts (www.mydomain.com, mail.mydomain.com)
> all have 'A' records pointing to my mail/web server; 
> MX records don't work as well, because stupid mail
> programs/systems put the MX host in the envelope.
> 

Aargh!  that should have been: CNAME records don't work as well,
because stupid mail programs/systems put the CNAME host in the
envelope.

> My exim.conf contains (all single lines, however your mail client displays
> them):
> 
> Main section:
> 
> local_domains = localhost:my.net.au:*.my.net.au:partial3-lsearch;/etc/exim/clients/domains
> 
> Directors:
> A new director, to handle the virtual hosts:
> 
> virtual:
>   driver = aliasfile
>   except_domains = localhost:my.met.au:*.my.net.au
>   domains = partial3-lsearch;/etc/exim/clients/domains
>   no_more
>   file = /etc/exim/clients/$domain_data
>   search_type = lsearch*
> 
> All other directors have a line like
> 
>   domains = localhost:my.net.au:*.my.net.au
> 
> so that they aren't applied to the virtual hosts.
> 
> /etc/exim/clients/domains contains lines like
> 
> *.mydomain.com.au: mydomain
> 
> The second field is just an identifier, and for each
> identifier there is another file, e.g., /etc/exim/clients/mydomain,
> which works like a regular alias file, e.g.:
> 
> *: myclient@my.net.au
> 
> This setup is for virtual domains with three parts in their
> domain name (e.g., *.mydomain.com.au); minor adjustment is
> required if you use "American" style domains (e.g.,
> *.somewhere.com), and you can mix them easily enough (with a
> longer local_domains line and a further director).
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> John P.
> -- 
> huiac@camtech.net.au
> john@huiac.apana.org.au
> http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services

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