Creating mail account on hostdomain

[KillahBee]

Hi,

I am new to directadmin and am trying to configure a mailserver on it. Right now I want to create email accounts (e.g. [email protected])

The main problem I am encountering is that my hostname is the same as the sending domain. I know this maybe shouldn't be the case for all other uses of directadmin, but I need the setup to be this way in order to ensure that HELO, rdns , sending domain and host are identical and thus give me maximum deliverability.

So my main question is how do I create pop3 email accounts through the linux command line or some other way? (e.g. [email protected], ...)

Because I clearly can't achieve this any other way.

Thanks in advance

 

[nobaloney]

While I don't believe for a moment that this will increase deliverability, I do believe you can set up email accounts as users simply with the useradd script from the root shell command line, and then the email username@hostname will work. The login will be simply username.

Jeff

 

[KillahBee]

Yes your probably right about the host not having to be exactly the same as the domain meaning it can be something like host.thesamedomain.com and the sending domain can be thesamedomain.com then. But the the domain can't or shouldn't be somethingelse.com I am pretty sure.


I am kinda following the instructions of a half assed php app that tells me they should be identical though and I want to try to follow it.

Thanks for the adduser tipp I am new to this and always forget that my pop3 users are defined the mysql database while I have been messing around with the dovecot aliases etc.

Kind of off topic but since you seem really knowledgeable about this do you know how to get exim to write the same sending IP as host? I have 3 sending IPs setup to rotate for and want the host IP to be the same as the sending IP instead of the IP exim is running on. My DNS records are curretnly hosted at my domain registrar containing SPF and DKIM which is working out quite well with the setup of these three IPs.

Thanks for the answer above and I fully understand F U as answer to my next question because this really isn't the place for this question.

 

[nobaloney]

Yes your probably right about the host not having to be exactly the same as the domain meaning it can be something like host.thesamedomain.com and the sending domain can be thesamedomain.com then. But the the domain can't or shouldn't be somethingelse.com I am pretty sure.

Pretty sure doesn't equate to correct. Nevertheless, I said I wouldn't argue this.

I am kinda following the instructions of a half assed php app that tells me they should be identical though and I want to try to follow it.

What else do you want to trust about an app that gets simple things wrong?

Thanks for the adduser tipp I am new to this and always forget that my pop3 users are defined the mysql database while I have been messing around with the dovecot aliases etc.

What has MySQL got to do with it? Nothing in a DirectAdmin server. It doesn't use MySQL for anything user or email related.

Kind of off topic but since you seem really knowledgeable about this do you know how to get exim to write the same sending IP as host? I have 3 sending IPs setup to rotate for and want the host IP to be the same as the sending IP instead of the IP exim is running on.

You can do it, but I don't recall the details of how. Ask on exim-users mailing list if you can't find it anywhere.

Jeff