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VisiGod

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Hello,

I have one question about DA that i cant find the answer.

I have a reseller with one domain (site.com) and i wish to create subdomains for several users (user1.site.com / user2.site.com / etc) but i would like to have the email within the main domain name ([email protected] / [email protected] / etc) instead of the standard [email protected]/[email protected] while maintaining the DA access separate (reseller would have access to reseller DA, user1 would only have access to user1.site.com zone, user2 would only have access to user2.site.com zone)

How can i achive this in DA?

Thanks in advance for your help.

VisiGod

PS: I've searched the DA forums and i've found several questions about this kind of "service" but with different purposes.
 
Create the email accounts manually in whichever domain you want them to be.

Create the subdomain accounts as separate domain acconts, all owned by the same reseller.

Jeff
 
That was what i didnt want to read ;)

Any change on changing the DA script (even it willn't be supported) to achive this ?
 
Changing it to do what differently?

I just don't understand the question.

Jeff
 
Well I can't see any way for it to work via da only if you create the email account on the main domain owner
 
VisiGod said:
To create the user subdomain email under the main domain.
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It can't. Because the subdomain doesn't have a domain structure, so there's no way for exim to route the email.

The way to get the domain structure is to set it up as a domain.

Set up a domain, get a domain structure :) .

Jeff
 
Hi, I am looking at the same 'challenge' and I am not sure what you mean by "set up a domain, get a domain structure" :P

What I did is take one domain, gave it to a reseller (fictitious: domainX.nl), then I added a testuser to this reseller with the domain "testuser.domainX.nl".

So this now user can be found at http://testuser.domainX.nl The question is - do you call this "adding a domain" ?

Ok, the problems arise when I want to give the user the email [email protected] - the way you explain it I will have to add this user to the mail accounts of the reseller, right?

This means that the mailbox will be placed in the reseller's homedir, isn't it? So for purpose of quota and backups by the user itself there would be problems??

Perhaps an email forwarder/redirect could work? Or an alias, somehow? I am guessing here - I don't know how this can be fixed in an elegant manner :(

Any thoughts beyond what you already wrote?

Thanks for your feedback - I see a lot of it in the forums and it's great!

Harro
 
I guess you've overlooked that a user can have more than one domain.

Simply allow your user to have multiple domains, and then both the domain example.com and the domain sub.example.com can be under the same user, same quotas, etc. But each is set up as a domain with it's own email, etc.

Thanks for the kind words.

Jeff
 
I understand that a user can have more than one domain, but in the situation I'd like to create (like the guy in the very first post in this thread) is where several users effectively have the same domain for email purposes.

So let's say 50 different users have emailaddress: [email protected]

but have domain/website url: http://username1-to50.domain.nl

Maybe it just isn't possible with quota's and scripts to automate.
 
Who provides subdomain email accounts?

I ask to my web host provider (same email account provider) for a subdomain email account, but he said, he can not provide this type of services.
Somebody knows what company provides subdomain email accounts???
Regards
 
Any company providing email services can supply what you call subdomain email accounts.

All you have to do is setup the subdomain as a true domain, and create the DNS records wherever the DNS for your domain is hosted.

Jeff
 
Thanks for the answer, but seems to be that my hosting service provider doesnot know (the customer services rep) exactly what I am talkin about. They told me again that they do not provide email account services with subdomains. I will copy your previous answer to them.
Regards.
 
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