E-mail account for multiple domains

[wdeboer]

Finally I am able to move some domains to the new webserver powered by DA. On the old server I had one e-mail account that for weyert.com and all e-mail that was send to *@example.com, *@example.nl would received into the POP3 email account called: [email protected].

Now I want this to happen too at the new server but I don't know how. Also the domains themselves should look like the same if possible. Meaning that www.example.nl and www.example.com will look the same. Anyone know how I can do this? Adding a new domain enables to me to control the domains seperatly.

 

[wdeboer]

Anyone? (Hehe, email notification didn't work because the e-mail accounts are failing haha )

 

[nobaloney]

You create a "catchall" and forward it to any address you want. The address you forward to must of course be a real address.

I don't recommend you do it; you'll eventually get a lot of spam from people using what's called a "dictionary attack".

There are several ways of having the same source domain and multiple domains pointing to it.

The easiest is probably to set up domain pointers in DA, in the user-level control panel. If you check "Create as an Alias" each domain will show it's own domain name. This will also set up emails so [email protected] will end up in the same email box as [email protected].

Jeff

 

[wdeboer]

Yes, the issue about the spam is known and solved through the Bayesian Filtering in Thunderbird. I tried to make the weyert.nl domain pointer only it doesn't use the public_html of the weyert user account. How do I share that?

Check the difference: http://www.example.nl/ (shows default page)
and www.example.com (shows real page). Really strange. But I am not sure what you mean with the alias part though. I am just want to use one public_html or user account to be associated with multiple domains. That's the highest priority, the second priority would be one email account for these domains i.e [email protected] and [email protected] would work.

 

[nobaloney]

Yes, the issue about the spam is known and solved through the Bayesian Filtering in Thunderbird.

You're the first person I've ever met who feels that downloading what could be thousands of emails (have you ever experienced an addressbook attack? I doubt it) to your client, and letting them get filtered there, as a resolution. To each their own.

I tried to make the weyert.nl domain pointer only it doesn't use the public_html of the weyert user account. How do I share that?[/code]
I don't know because I don't know what you're doing. The instructions I gave will absolutely use the same public_html directory for http and the same private_html directory for https.

Check the difference: http://www.weyert.nl/ (shows default page)
and www.weyert.com (shows real page).

Both of these look the same here; the contents consist of:

Essent presentatie
www

where www is a clickable link to a nonexistent directory named "www".

Really strange. But I am not sure what you mean with the alias part though. I am just want to use one public_html or user account to be associated with multiple domains. That's the highest priority, the second priority would be one email account for these domains i.e [email protected] and [email protected] would work.

And what I wrote will do exactly that here. If it doesn't for you you should probably check with your hosting company.

Jeff

 

[wdeboer]

Yes, it works now fine! About the spam I have had multiple attacks. I am getting around ~1200 spam per day. But Thunderbird is filtering it out and only 10-30 mails are left unfiltered Works nicely. Also SpamAssasin works nicely.

I am using a seperate e-mail account that I will use for my PDA for office-pda communication

 

[nobaloney]

Your definition of "works fine" is quite different from mine.

Your definition gives you 1200 pieces of spam daily. You download them which may not cost you money but certainly costs you time and bandwidth.

Then you have to spend time to see if Thunderbird worked, or if it misdiagnosed some of that spam.

My definition of "works fine" is I don't get the spam, period. I don't spend time downloading it, and when I'm on a wireless connection at the local coffee shop I don't waste money downloading it.

I don't have to worry about whether there are any misdiagnosed (false) positives, because SpamBlocker refuses to accept those, and the sender, if his email is misdiagnosed, knows it, and even more importantly, because of the very specific messages in the latest SpamBlocker (now in beta, almost ready for release) knows exactly why.

That's what works fine for me .

Jeff

 

[wdeboer]

Sure, I understand it's better to avoid catch all accounts Planning to move away from this someday this year, only it's a big move atm.