Some ideas for you...

[Artek]

I have some ideas for you.

1)

DA creates new DNS zones with hostmaster.domain.com in SOA section.
It means there should be an automatically created forwarder from

[email protected] -> user responsible for domain's mail

Without it you cannot contact your SOA mail address it ia a violence
of RFCs.

2)

There should be an option to individually create virtualhosts
within a domain. Now we have an option only to add some data
into general schema which is propagated globally. It is especially
important for one domain's change only with mail redirecting into
squirrelmail like in the example below:

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=92

I don't want to change general schema which is obviously possible
but for one domain only. Custom httpd config gives me an option to
modify only existing domain's httpd.conf.

3)

It would be also great to have an opportunity to send an e-mail
not only for all your users but to all of your POP accounts.

I think all of these ideas are worth to consider.

Regards,
Artek

 

[tillo]

The first one is not actually a bad idea, but it would be much, much better to insert "hostmaster: <sysadmin@address>" into the /etc/aliases file, which is exactly what I do toghether with an alias for root, postmaster, webmaster, security, abuse etc.
The actual major technical responsible for the DNS service provided by a server is not the domain zone administrator but the system administrator.
If you look at how this is done for any major registrar that does DNS service too, you will notice that they do the same thing: the email address in the SOA is always theirs. It doesn't help anyone to have a middle man when reporting problems.

The second one is ok. In fact it would be nice to have an interface to an optional extra config for any domain without being limited to its virtualhost.
Of course to add a virtualhost you can easily include an extra config into the server-wide extra/httpd-includes.conf, but having a per-domain extra config when you remove the domain any extra config would also be removed automatically.

I find the third one a little intrusive, but that's me. I'd add that function only to the user level, not the reseller or admin one.

 

[nobaloney]

We've always set up the aliases, but for the site admin. I'd like to see some others reply as well; which do you do? Which would you like to do? Why?

As per tillo, I also agree that neither administrators nor resellers should arbitrarily send an email to all email addresses; I think only the site owners should do that.

As per the second suggestion: I'm not sure what the poster means.

Any other comments?

Jeff