Re: [exim] Defining "Virtual"

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Author: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Defining "Virtual"
sorry for replying to myself.

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:39 +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:37 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > To make communication about this a little easier, I would like to have
> > more "formal" definition of a "virtual foo" in exim context. I have
> > created the Wiki Page "Defining Virtual",
> > http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/DefiningVirtual, and would like to
> > solicit your comments and improvements.
>
> the EximWiki isn't your (or anyone else's) personal soap box, get off
> it, in other words: drop the comment that "virtual" is overused.
> Wikipedia calls this the Neutral Point of View.


s/this/this principle/

> other than that, it looks good, although my own internal definition of
> "virtual domain" isn't listed:
>
> An e-mail server supports virtual domains whenever it supports domains
> in addition to the domain the server itself is located in, and can
> handle addresses in each domain separately.
>
> (not the most lucent definition, I guess...)


actually it can be simplified to

        An e-mail server supports virtual domains if it can handle
        addresses in more than one domain separately.


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Kjetil T.