Hello all,

I'm Having a sticky problem, and Im pretty sure I've configured dovecot wrong, I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have a system running sendmail. I need to sue virtual domains, as several domains will be hosted on this box. I am using squirrelmail for webmail and it has a vlogin plugin that allows me to use virtual domains, and it is working correctly, so far as I can tell. If a user goes to their email domain via

http://www.domain.com/webmail/

and logs in, it correctly converts their login from just user that they typed in to user@domain.com, and if another domain was domain2.com and they went to

http://www.domain2.com/webmail

it will send user@domain2.com to dovecot. This is where I think I'm doing it wrong. Dovecot seems to just try that username which doesnt exist to the local OS of course, its just user, not user@domain.com. I read the part about dovecot using the auth_passdb and auth_userdb but was really confused how it works. if I use those, does it expect sendmail to deliver mail for those virtual domains to a new path I have supplied? also do I have to create a new and separate login and password flat file for it to authenticate? if so, how do I configure sendmail to deliver only those specific mails from each separate user from different virtual domains to be delivered? I'm just trying out the virtual domain thing, and I'm definitely really really confused because it seems each piece of software I have running here wants to do it differently.

any pointers, hits or help would greatly be appreciated.

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Phil

Phil@daviszone.org