Re: Hosting virtual mail domains on Debian.

[Kenneth Dombrowski <kenneth@ylayali.net>]

On 04-04-23 13:34 -0600, David Anselmi wrote:
> David Anselmi wrote:
> >I'd really like to be able to host virtual mail domains on a Sarge server.
> [...]
> Ok, no takers on that question.  Anyone have any ideas where else I 
> should ask?  Just go straight to the developers' lists?

Hi David,

I've been watching your thread hoping somebody with more experience
would speak up, but at least I can offer you some links I've collected
in preparation for a similar project..

They all get around the courier-exim db incompatibility (which I wasn't
even aware of until you mentioned it) by authenticating against an
external database.  (the following all use mysql, though I did see a
really painful-sounding account of setting up exim-postgres-courier on
the exim-users list)

virtual exim/courier/mysql configs:
http://www.tty1.net/virtual_domains_en.html
http://www.alexlomas.com/info/exim-courier-virtualusers.html

I think it's one of those pages that notes squirrelmail just drops into
place as well, with the mysql backend

Here's an interesting mysql-lookup .forward/procmail config for exim3:
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20030203/049538.html

& there's this PHP-based VirtualExim project, which looks kinda new:
http://silverwraith.com/vexim/index.html

there are some pretty good howtos for postfix as well,
http://www.high5.net/howto/
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml

that gentoo page also has notes on mailman

I understand there is some kind of support for virtual domains built
into the postfix module for webmin; but this:
http://www.swelltech.com/support/webminguide/ch10.html#pfvirtuals
makes it sound like less than "let a master account for each domain
manage their own users"

HTH, let us know how it goes,
Kenneth