[cobalt-users] Kludgy solution for email catch all does not work correctly

[Chip <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I haven't yet ported our customer sites over to the RaQ, but I had the same 
problem with our existing Apache-based host, and was told by our fairly 
adept tech weenies that there wasn't any good solution when doing virtual 
hosting.

I came up with something that's an incredible kludge, but works 
nonetheless.  We configure all mail (all domains) that doesn't match an 
alias to go to one POP box.  This box is checked every two minutes by a 
Eudora client running on one of our PCs, accessing the web server through 
our ISDN connection.  Eudora has one filter set up for each domain name, so 
anything that comes to anything "@domain1.com" is automatically forwarded 
to whomever is the designated recipient for that customer. Another filter 
for "@domain2.com" and for each domain. It's set up at the same time we 
sign up the customer, so it's not difficult to administer.

Catch is, we've only got about 40 domains right now, and I know that this 
solution will get less and less elegant as we add more domains... but I'd 
love to hear anyone else's more elegant solution to the problem.

BTW, a special thanks to all the folks here on the list.  I'm a newbie to 
Linux and the RaQ, but I'm getting up to speed faster than I would have 
imagined, and it's in large part due to reading the helpful suggestions 
from everyone here.  I cut and past the most useful tips into what has 
become a bigassed Word doc that I will eventually sort and print out (or 
transfer to a database)  for reference.