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.
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