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  • November 4, 2004 at 7:55 pm #359827
    Derrick Peavy
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    I am trying to understand how to set up mail accounts for the domains I host on a new dual G5 X Serve. This is VERY NEW to me. I have a few sites set up and running fine. I need to add mail now. The hosting provider where I have co-located has put in the correct DNS entries for the MX record for each domain. He is hosting the DNS records on a dedicated box for DNS serving. So the XServe is not the DNS server.

    I am at a loss for finishing the puzzle. As an example, I host a site http://www.gardenkiss.com. I have turned on the web mail option for the site using the Server Admin util. So you can get to the log in page at http://www.gardenkiss.com/webmail/

    However, I cannot log in using the user account for that site. I am also confused on that issue – how to set up email accounts? Must I really enter a user account in the Users and Groups list of the Workgroup Manager for EVERY email account? I have hundreds, and that makes no sense.

    Also, in the Server Admin utility, the “Overview” for the mail server shows that Outgoing and Incoming SMTP is disabled. I found some help through google to run ‘sudo postfix start’ and that solved that problem.

    Seriously, I am new to this, having used Imail on W2K for several years now. Can anyone, ANYONE help? Paid help is an option. I am VERY GREEN with the terminal.

    I just need to be able to set up mail accounts for each of 30+ domains I host – each domain has several email accounts/users – and allow that user the send/get email from his/her client app as well as through the web using SquirrelMail.

    November 8, 2004 at 9:10 pm #359864
    Kayners
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    AFAIK, you will need to create user accounts. If you have the basic info available for all users, maybe there’s a way to import them all. Look at the Open Directory documentation that came with Server (i.e. “Open Directory.pdf”).

    For the domains, start Server Admin, select the Mail service, then Settings->Advanced. That’s where you might enter the various domains for which you’ll accept mail.

    I know this isn’t a huge help, but I’m new to this myself. Today’s our first day live with the new mail system, and aside from losing a few of the boss’ email due to Postfix not restarting after backup, it’s going pretty well. Of course, none of the users wants to read my informative emails about how to use the system, but that’s to be expected.

    Good luck!

    Steve.

    December 16, 2004 at 4:49 am #360189
    ylon
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    Derrick, this appears to be a very similar issue (or identical) to mine. Did you find a satisfactory answer? I definitely cannot (nor can I have others) going through that tedious process for each e-mail account when there may be 10 or more e-mail addresses for each virtual domain.

    December 21, 2004 at 5:22 am #360221
    siddhartha
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    use passenger by http://www.macinmind.com/Passenger/index.html to import multiple users into wgm. works like a charm. all you need is a text file of usernames and passwords.

    multiple domains i can’t help you with.

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