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VPOPMAIL'S "IP ALIAS" DOMAINS
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When performing an auth in vpopmail, you would generally use the full email
address as the username

If many of your users are from a single domain, then you can optionally put
that domain into the ~vpopmail/etc/defaultdomain file. Then if a user doesnt
include a domain when they auth, the auth will be automatically performed 
against the domain nominated in the defaultdomain file.

This system works well as most mail servers only need to have one domain
nominated as a default. However what would happen if you later inherit
another large domain full of users who have their email clients setup
to login with just a username only? A vpopmail server can have only one
default domain. It is going to be a lot of work to have to go to each email 
client and change it over to login with full email address.

vpopmail provides a solution for this scenario : IP Alias Domains.

To use IP Alias Domains, you need to bind some more IP addresses to your
mail server. Then use the vipmap program to associate a particular domain 
to a particular IP address. 

Then when the auth request arrives, if it does not contain a domain,
vpopmail will attach the matching domain from the IP alias table.

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Contributed by Michael Bowe 7th Dec 2003