Multiple Domain and Qmail

Newbie question so please be kind. I am trying to read as much as I can.

I just inherited a LINUX box with qmail running. All is good. Now the boss
want me to add a 2nd
domain to our mail system.

What he wants is user@xxx.com or user@yyy.com to both end up in the same
mailbox and the user be
able to send a message with either of these to address.

How hard would it be to set this up? Are these "virtual" domains?


Thanks in advance,


Fletcher

"Fletcher Hearns" <hearns@toad.net> writes:

> Newbie question so please be kind. I am trying to read as much as I can.

Have you read "Life with qmail"? There's a link in my .sig.

> I just inherited a LINUX box with qmail running. All is good. Now the boss
> want me to add a 2nd
> domain to our mail system.
>
> What he wants is user@xxx.com or user@yyy.com to both end up in the same
> mailbox and the user be
> able to send a message with either of these to address.
>
> How hard would it be to set this up?

No, it's trivial. Add the second domain to control/rcpthosts and
control/locals, and send qmail-send a HUP signal. This is covered in
LWQ:

http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#multiple-hostnames

> Are these "virtual" domains?

No, they're local domains since they share the same namespace. If you
wanted info@xxx.com and info@yyy.com to go different mailboxes, then
at least one of them would have to be virtual.

--
Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
<http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.

David,

Thanks...it just seems too simple.

Fletcher
"Dave Sill" <MaxFreedom@sws5.ctd.ornl.gov> wrote in message
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> "Fletcher Hearns" <hearns@toad.net> writes:
>
> > Newbie question so please be kind. I am trying to read as much as I
can.
>
> Have you read "Life with qmail"? There's a link in my .sig.
>
> > I just inherited a LINUX box with qmail running. All is good. Now the
boss
> > want me to add a 2nd
> > domain to our mail system.
> >
> > What he wants is user@xxx.com or user@yyy.com to both end up in the
same
> > mailbox and the user be
> > able to send a message with either of these to address.
> >
> > How hard would it be to set this up?
>
> No, it's trivial. Add the second domain to control/rcpthosts and
> control/locals, and send qmail-send a HUP signal. This is covered in
> LWQ:
>
> http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#multiple-hostnames
>
> > Are these "virtual" domains?
>
> No, they're local domains since they share the same namespace. If you
> wanted info@xxx.com and info@yyy.com to go different mailboxes, then
> at least one of them would have to be virtual.
>
> --
> Dave Sill Oak Ridge National Lab, Workstation Support
> Author, The qmail Handbook <http://web.infoave.net/~dsill>
> <http://lifewithqmail.org/>: Almost everything you always wanted to know.