Administering Mail and Messaging

How virtual domains work

All messages addressed to a virtual domain are routed through a sendmail mailer called /etc/mail/multihome. This program does virtual domain aliasing, then it converts any virtual domain user names to physical names via the user map, and finally it resubmits the mail back to sendmail for local delivery (and possibly forwarding depending on the results of aliasing).

There are several configuration files that are used and all are maintained by the Virtual Domain User Manager (see Configuring mail and messaging):

Each of the database files are rebuilt automatically when the text file is changed by the manager.

See multihome(1) and multihome(1M) for more information on the multihome program.


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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.1 - 5 November 1999