2010/12/15 Stefano Bagnara <[email protected]>: >>> What about moving to virtual hosting as the default (and maybe the ONLY) >>> option? >>> When you setup a mailserver you have a domain, I think it is easier to >>> understand for newbies if they create users with their full email >>> address instead of using simple "usernames" and receive email for that >>> username on each configured domain. >> >> I thought about this too.. I'm just not sure if thats really the think >> todo. For example in qmail and postfix you don't have virtualhosting >> enabled by default. So I thought follow this princip make sense.. > > I always thought that unix servers still used this because of legacy > issues. Unix users don't have a domain and that servers inherited > (from sendmail) this mail issue in order to deliver mail to local > users (and use system authentication/authorization by default). > > We don't provide such system integration so it seems we just get the > disadvantages and no advantage.
See your point here.. > > BTW I'm fine with both solutions. It's just that now it's the moment > to "change" stuff, and I think it would be easier to > understand/explain/document if we only support one method as I don't > see advantages in not enabling virtualhosting. > > Stefano > I need to think about it a bit more.. Anyone else has some thoughts about this ? Bye, Norman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
