Confused over virtual hosts

[neilhighley]

Hi everyone,

Just got Imail 7 and its very impressive.
I am trying to migrate our mail services away from a cobalt box. There are around 30 virtual hosts on the cobalt box but I notice that each user must have a unique username, does this mean that to transfer their accounts accross to IMAIL I just need to add their host domains as an alias to my root domain and add the users directly to the root domain?

Is there anything I should be looking out for or am I totally off course in doing what I wish to do?

I only have one IP address to play with on my IMAIL machine.

 

[rjs]

So you have separate domain names (e.g. domain1.com, domain2.com, etc.) and you have separate users for each domain? Or do you want all your users to use all the domains (e.g. usera@domain1.com would also be usera@domain2.com)?

 

[neilhighley]

Seperate users for each domain.
Also, any clues on how I can implement a shared address book?
Do I just create it in the public account, and is it possible to have shared address books per domain?

Sorry for all the questions.
Thanks for all your responses.

Neil Highley

 

[rjs]

I don't know about separate address books per domain. I think LDAP is the only solution, but I have not used it. For the virtual hosts, from the imail administrator,
1) highlight the local hosts, then click the add hosts button on the right
2) click the add button, that should create a $virtual## host in the left column.
3) highlight that and set the official host name and aliases field as you need it for the domain.
4) then click the save button.
You will then have a virtual host for the domain in question. You can add users for this domain. Then repeat the process for each separate domain. Make sure you have DNS A records for the host name you use.

 

[skotman]

global address book per domain:
imail does allow this but as far as I know it can only be done via webmail, unless you want to setup LDAP so that outlook can connect to it.