From: Magnus Bäck (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 10:20:21 EST
On Sunday, February 01, 2004 at 15:47 CET,
FastNet USA <> wrote:
[...]
> Each and every user will have an account on our local (192.168.0.2)
> mail server, using the mbox protocol, this would be the easiest way to
> set it up, and would not be considered Virtual Domains.
Correct. The choice between mbox and maildir is irrelevant here.
> Now I am under the impression that I can have each account have a
> local Unix account or I can set up a virtual_mailbox_domains parameter
> so that they don't have to have a local UNIX account, but can still
> POP mail off the server, by using mail.domainname.com as their POP
> mail server in their Outlook.
Correct.
> Now the instance where they have a local Unix account, is not Virtual
> Domains, that would be local users. But the situation where they are
> set up in the virtual_mailbox_domains map is Virtual Domain set up.
Correct.
> I am also under the impression that one can use aliases (local
> account), and mail list and one cannot not(Virtual Domain), we do need
> to use aliases and mail list, so this is where the question comes to
> mind, which way should I set it up for the most stable environment.
Not quite correct. You get aliases for virtual domains with
virtual_alias_maps (actually, virtual aliases is a generic
mechanism for recipient address rewriting and doesn't only
apply to virtual domains). Mailing list managers typically
require messages to be piped to them via e.g. an alias. That
is not supported with virtual(5) as it is with aliases(5),
but there are ways around it.
> Can someone please tell me if I have this correct and if not explain
> why.
>
> The two choices according to the book are called the following:
>
> 1st choice is called Shared Domains with System Account
>
> 2nd choice Separate Domains with Virtual Accounts
>
> My second question is this, will each of those options above be ok
> with a standard POP server, or will I have to use Imap with one of
> them and not the other, I want to use regular POP3 server that comes
> with Red Hat ES 3, which is ipop3.
If ipop3 doesn't support non-system accounts, you can't use it with
Postfix virtual mailbox domains. IMAP/POP has nothing to do with this.
> And which can use aliases and mail list.
Both choices can.
-- Magnus Bäck
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