RE: FN-FORUM UNIX hosting with unlimited POP3 support wanted!!

date posted 1st May 2001 14:48

Hi Steve,

I think our VS300 may be a bit too big for you, but basically any Unix/Linux
host using a virtusertable should be able to sort this out, either by
putting in mappings for each email address or by using the following format
in /etc/virtusertable:

@emaildomain.com [EMAIL REMOVED]

The %1 means that if someone sends an email to

[EMAIL REMOVED] it will be mapped to [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] to [EMAIL REMOVED] etc.

BTW as Unix/Linux rely on creating users to make POP accounts, and it is
normally limited to 65536 per box, people supplying VSs cant really provide
'unlimited' POPs as there *is* a limit to the number of users. BUT (there's
always a but) if you are forwarding to the company mailserver (as you seem
to want) then you aren't using POP boxes on the hosts server anyway, you are
using mail forwarding and those are limited only by the number you can fit
in a text file (i.e. LOTS).

Cheers,

Alex.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 01 May 2001 12:08
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> Subject: FN-FORUM UNIX hosting with unlimited POP3 support wanted!!
>
>
> Hi,
> I have just had a request to find some decent hosting for a
> number of sites
> and they want to be able to have some control over setting up email
> throughout their company. I think they use an internal server to route
> individually named emails to the right location, but they were a little
> unsure how this works, the server was installed by an outside company.
> So I suggested that it could be possible where their domain is
> hosted to use
> the hosting companies mail server to forward all emails to any designated
> forwarding address. A web design firm that I do freelance work for uses
> Netcetera (www.inetc.net) for hosting and this can be done with them, but
> they use NT servers and I have had no end of problems setting up
> scripts and
> stuff. So I want to host with a UNIX server.
>
> I don't need too much space up to 10mb will be fine, but 5 will
> probably do.
> Access to a mail server and web based control panel.
> And to be able to transfer each domain name to the new hosting company.
> I have 4 sites to set up, but I'll put each in there own space.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards
> Steve
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