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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by Eugene <ph...@infosatgeomatica.com> on 2004/10/10 23:33:54 UTC

Re[2]: Newbie: Configure for multiple hosts.

Hello Daniel, thank you for your answers! Thanks!!!


Friday, October 8, 2004, 10:59:21 AM, you wrote:


> You can't run separate pop3/smtp servers for all the domains on the same
> port (or at least not without having one ip per domain on the machine).
> Also, i'm not sure if james can run with more than one pop3/smtp server
> anyway!

> However, you only actually need one pop3/smtp server: Simply make the all
> the 'A' records for those hosts you listed point to the james server ip.
> That's all you need to do, apart from listing the domains that james should
> treat as local.


>>
>> 2) Is it possible to configure multiple remote controls for each of
>> these hosts? So if I want to connect "telnet host_one.com 4555" or
>> "telnet host_two.com 4555" or "telnet host_three.com 4555", is it
>> possible to allow to each user administer his own host in this way?

> Not as far as i know.
> If all you want them to administer is email accounts, then use a database
> (eg mysql) for users & virtual users tables and write some simple admin
> screens.

> I wrote some a simple tool like this.  There are various files at:
> http://www.netcase.co.uk/daniel/james/2.1.3_STABLE/
> Check out the "web-admin.zip" file.

> Note that if you want to use any of my code, then i would recomend compiling
> 2.2.0 with the code in the 2.2.0 folder.

>> 3) How to configure news groups for each of these hosts?

> No idead here i'm afraid :)

>> Guys, I'm not a Java programmer, I know XML, I can write templates on
>> XSLT, but not more. Excuse me, if I didnt understand some things:)
>> Please give me some links or tips, maybe book names about James? But
>> before you give some advice like "You should write a custom class
>> import mail.* public bla-bla{...}" you must to know that I far
>> from this, so keep it
>> simple please:) I read all documentation on the site, I've downloaded
>> two articles, but I didnt figure it out how to configure James in my
>> way.

> It shouldnt be too difficult for you.  James handles mail for multiple
> domains out of the box.  It's only when you have quite specific requirements
> that you end up writing your own code.

> We're using a slightly customised version of james to handle mail for all of
> our clients, and we're finding it a doddle to administer!

> Daniel.


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