Re: [cobalt-developers] Cobalt Raq4 email account question

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Faraz Ahmed Khan wrote:

> We have two domains www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com hosted on Cobalt
> Raq4. The problem is that that user "abdullah" belogns to  www.domain1.com
> and www.domain2.com wants also this userid.

Farez,

Cobalt RaQs rely on linux "usernames" to set up email boxes, and as
you've found out there can only be one "abdullah" on a RaQ.

What we do, what most webhosters do, and what you may want to do, is set
up two users, one for example abdullah1 (at domain1.com) and another
abdullah2 (at domain2.com).  Then you'd give abdullah1 an alias of
abdullah, so the the abdullah1 mailbox will receive email addressed to
abdullah@xxxxxxxxxxx, and also give abdullah2 an alias of abdullah, so
the abdullah2 mailbox will receive email addressed to
abdullah@xxxxxxxxxxxx

There are other systems for "pop" email collection under linux that
don't rely on linux usernames, but they're not easily installed on RaQs,
and even if you could install one, it wouldn't work through the RaQ gui.

The Plesk Server Administrator software, available for Cobalt RaQs, does
allow email users to be set up the way you'd like, but it's a complete
different administration interface, and you might not consider it
inexpensive.  You may write me offlist for more information if you'd
like, but frankly you probably should just do what the rest of us do, as
I've enumerated above.

Jeff
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