On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:16:18PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> Then we are back on 1 IP per virtual domain. In our case this would mean we
> need some hundred IPs on the mail machines while they typically have only 2
> - 5. Remember that it is not too common to have webhosting and mail services
> on the same machine (for very good reasons).
This might be a problem for your particular set-up, but I don't see it
as a big problem for us because we're so small. I can't think of any
other way to do true virtual hosting without IP aliases. This is how
it's done with web servers for example.
My problem with username-domain or username@domain for the POP3
authentication, is our clients might want just username for POP3
authentication. Furthermore, they could
request an appropriate hostname for them like pop3.clientname.dom
instead of a more general pop3.bighosting.dom (which could resolve to
pop3.bighosting.dom, but still). Also username-domain or
username@domain doesn't look like what people are used to (which is a
political issue), and my boss might not like it :(.
> hmm, i don't really get your point. Currently there is only _1_ attribute
> for authentication: uid.
Right, but it would be better if it was just one attribute for both,
like the 'mail' attribute currently is for the SMTP.
