Hi,

Here I have used yahoo.com domain but it can be any domain lets say
domain.com. My network is not connected to Internet. Still do you think that
the following will not work if guru.com exists and domain.com does not
exists physically.

###############virtusertable###########################
  @domain.com          root@server1.guru.com
####################################################

TnR
Hiren

On 3/24/06, Jarry <jarry@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hiren Dave wrote:
>
> > Yes, I have MX record. This is a virtuserable concept.
> > admin@guru.com  root@server1.guru.com
> > @yahoo.com      root@server1.guru.com
> > entry in there and that means mails that are sent to admin and yahoo.com
> > should go to root. Am I right?
>
> I do not think so. At least I do not believe you own yahoo.com domain,
> it means you can not set up your server1.guru.com as mailserver for
> yahoo.com domain and redirect all yahoo.com mail to your server.
>
> Please, understand, that virtsertable concept is a way of hosting
> multiple mail-domains, but you need full control of that domains.
> Or do you really believe that if you have:
>
> @yahoo.com            root@server1.guru.com
>
> it means you can "steal" all mail sent to all yahoo.com accounts?
> No offense, but you do not mean it seriously, do you?  :-)
>
> You can only *redirect* your mail in yahoo.com, but only on your
> own accounts, and only if yahoo.com supports it. Or you can collect
> your mail from yahoo.com through pop3/imap protocols at regular
> intervals (again, only if yahoo.com supports it).
>
> virtusertable covers local delivering, but *not sending*.
> When your MTA (sendmail) gets a mail message for anything@yahoo.com,
> it asks nameserver authorised for yahoo.com for corresponding
> mail-server for deliveries, and *no matter* what you have in
> virtusertable. But as I said, very probably you do not own yahoo.com
> domain, so you can not define your server as mailserver for yahoo.com.
>
> But, this all is possible to do for your own domain, guru.com,
> if you really have full control of it. I think maybe it's the right
> time to read something more about sendmail and bind, or some RFC
> about how email works...
>
> Jarry
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