configuring email

[Jeff Mings]

    Are you trying to do this without running a DNS server that is 
authoritative for those domains?  If not, using the "mailto:blahblah@ 
domain I made up.com" tags on your HTTP server will NOT work, since the 
browser won't go through your webserver, but will send email through its 
own smtp server.
    Here's what might be simpler:
Set up an html form on your page that sends the message, subject, 
address, etc. of the email to a php script on your server.  The php 
script can then email the person with the redirected address by first 
consulting a simple file or a MySQL database that has the correct 
associations.  Then you wouldn't have to worry about running bind or 
doing time-consuming DNS configuration.

-Jeff Mings


Roderick A Gammon wrote:

>Aloha-
>
>I want to set up my server so that a mailto link on a web page reads
>"user at domain.com" where user is an account on the server and domain is the
>virtual domain for the website.  (I set up the websites as accounts on the
>server with Apache reading the virtual domain from the account's pub_html
>dir.)
>
>Then within the account the .forward file will contain the line
>"customer at customer-home-email.com".
>
>So the website client sends an email to the website, and it gets forwarded
>to the customer I set the website up for. Voila! an email address within the
>virtual domain without customers logging into the server.
>
>But of course it isn't so easy.
>
>1. I can send an email from the account using pine, but it comes up
>"account at aeg-inc.net" instead of "account at foo-domain.com"
>
>2. When I send test emails to the web account Road Runner's postmaster
>returns this message:
>"Connection to aeg-inc.net with Ip Address 207.175.216.2 failed from
>hawaii.rr.com-24.25.227.36
>swh at aeg-inc.net
>The operation completed successfully."
>
>(Note that the operation completed successfully on a failure ;)
>
>So, is there any way to do this that is somewhat simple?  Like adding a line
>to a hosts file or something?  Anything short of "install bar package,
>config bar.cf, bar.conf, and set qux in these other 10 apps."
>
>I am not accusing list advice of being hairy, in fact I'm a big fan of
>y'all.  Rather I am intimidated by the complexities of unix networking
>beyond db and webserver setup.
>
>Thanks so very much-
>Rod Gammon
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