2.10.2001 pisze Marc Perkel (marc@???):
> That might explain your lack of support in Exim for what I call virtual domains.
> I use a product called Linuxconf that is a front end menu for linux. It's a front
> end for almost everything including Sendmail and he put a lot of work into the
> sendmail part.
> Under his system, there is a LOT more than just aliases. It creates multiple
> pairs of passwd/shadow files - one for each domain. It also creates real pop
> accounts for each domain. It has a text mode and an html interface for creating
> virtual domains, adding users, aliases, fallback domains, etc. Even the ability
> to give managment of virtual domains to other real users.
> I do hosting for other people and I need to have an email system that allows me
> to create virtual email users, email only, for each domain. Linuxconf allows me
> to do that. But - it's based on sendmail. Now I have it working with exim, but
> I've had to use a lot of tricks that would be much easier if you had a few new
> features, like the ability to specify an alternate passwd file.
> By specifying and alternate passwd file exim would automatically know
> if the virtual local user exists, what their home directory is. Their
> UID and GID. Where to look for the .forward files. All the stuff I
> had to do the hard way. You program probably has hard coded to look
> for only /etc/passwd. If you had a variable to set that allowed the
> location of the /etc/passwd file to me moved to something like
> /etc/vmail/passwd.$domain then my work would have been much easier.
You should really read the Fine Manuals of Exim. Exim is much more
flexible than you seem to think.
best regards,
Jubal
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