Hal, You are very close to the solution. Xmail on windows can by run as xmail2 also. Just copy the whole xmail dir structure to a new location. Rename the xmail binary to xmail2 Copy the registry for gnu/xmail to gnu/xmail2 (match the binary name (case too, I think)) Ensuring correct IP bindings and generally unique settings to avoid conflict, and you're away.
As I said before a Google on the subject will give you the detailed solution. Here is a start: http://xmailforum.homelinux.net/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=6&t=791 Rob :-) _________________________________________________ It might look like I'm doing nothing, but on a cellular level, I'm quite busy. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Dell Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:27 AM To: xmail@xmailserver.org Subject: [xmail] Re: Help with Postini Dear Don Drake - > It's definitely possible to run multiple XMail servers on a single machine, I have a bunch running. > You will need separate installation directories and you'll have to specify IP's on startup for each > instance as well as setting XMAIL_PID_DIR for clean shutdowns. Sure, I get all of the above requirements... Since, you mentioned, XMAIL_PID_DIR that means you are running on *nix as XMAIL_PID_DIR is NOT a valid environment variable for Windows. Right? Let's not loose site of the fact that I have a problem looking for a solution in that.... It seems to me that other folks have commented on this same underlying issue.. We need to lock a domain to accept eMail from a specific upstream MTA. In this case, using Postini does not help, because the SPAMers simply continue to direct connect to xMail and bypass Postini. So an internal xMail solution could be an smtp.ipmap.tab filed that could be added to the domain level. Check this related url http://www.mail-archive.com/xmail@xmailserver.org/msg08057.html. Without the above fix, the question becomes how to finesse running multiple xMail Server binaries in my environment which is Windows? Presently on Windows, when xMail.exe running as a service the OS goes out to the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Xmail for the basic service parameters to manage the process thru Services MMC... It's fairly easy to poke the Registry to create another service with a name like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Xmail2. I believe the possiblity of doing this on Windows, is going to come down to if xMail.exe is hard coded to go out to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GNU\Xmail to look for MAIL_ROOT and MAIL_CMD_LINE for the root folder and startup parameters respectively as a replacement for envrionment vairables when running as a service. The docs (http://xmailserver.org/Readme.html#nt_win2k_xp) talk about this registry stuff from a simple installation point of view... Does anyone understand how GNU or maybe it's xMail maps the environment variables to the GNU registry entry? Is it simply looking up the file name of the exe or is the registry path simply hard coded? OR what would happen if I blank the MAIL_ROOT and MAIL_CMD_LINE can I add the parameters directly on to the end of the ImagePath Regitry entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Xmail? Hal Dell Managing Partner ePodWorks.net, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
