chester c young wrote:
trying to understand locals and hosteddomains, is the following
correct?
locals is a single file; hosteddomains is a directory whose files are
catenated together.
Yes.
hosteddomains is a superset of locals.
No. A domain is either one or the other, not both.
However, "esmtpacceptmailfor.dir" contains all of the domains in both as
well as domains for which that instance of Courier will accept and relay
mail (backup MX, for example), so it's a superset of locals and
hosteddomains.
the format of each is the same, typically
mydomain.com
.mydomain.com
the second representing all subdomains of mydomain.com
I'm not sure if hosteddomains accepts the second example.
hosteddomains must include each hostname with DNS AAAA, A or MX to this
machine. (locals, if no hosteddomains).
Also no, explained above.
the primary difference is that mail accounts using local domains do not
need to specify the domain as part of the mail address. conversely,
there cannot be two local domains having the same mail user, eg, there
cannot be use...@domain1.com and use...@domain2.com.
For clarity: if both domain1.com and domain2.com are listed in the
"locals" file, then use...@domain1.com and use...@domain2.com are the same
account.
hosteddomains is sync'd with makehosteddomains;
locals is sync'd with makealiases.
Nothing syncs locals, AFAIK. You do, however, have to add any new
domain to esmtpacceptmailfor.dir and run "makeacceptmailfor".
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