popa3d-users - Re: Virtual Domains

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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:20:38 +0200
From: Tim van Erven <tve@...mig.net>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Virtual Domains

On Sat, 18/10/2003 23:04 +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 08:51:24PM +0200, Tim van Erven wrote:
>> And in that case it would not be uncommon to use separate IPs for the
>> virtual mailservers for the domains,
> 
> This is not uncommon, regardless of who administers the virtual mail
> servers.  Some choose to do the virtualization IP-based (and this is
> what the code in virtual.c supports), some do it name-based (requiring
> that POP3 usernames of the form user@...ain are used).

Thanks, that explains why popa3d uses the IPs.

>> so the IP for the virtual
>> mailservers could be used in place of the "127.0.0.1" to differentiate
>> between domains?
> 
> It's the only way it's meant to be setup.  Your use of "127.0.0.1" is
> a hack.  I'm not sure why it even works for you (all connections are
> somehow tunneled via localhost?)

I'm using stunnel to execute popa3d as a local inetd-type program.

Cheers,

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