[imp] Problem with Domain Auto Detection

geno@onshore.net geno at onshore.net
Thu Feb 9 09:46:53 PST 2006


Does anyone have any suggestions?  I can't be the only person trying to use auto
detection functionality for multiple domains virtually hosted on one server with
the same IP for all.  Can someone please break down how the auto detection
procedure works?


Quoting Geno <geno at onshore.net>:

> Were currently preparing to move our production mail server from IMP3 to
> IMP4. I have got it working on another machine but I'm running into
> problems auto detecting the domain the user is accessing.  Basically we
> have around 40 domains with webmail hosts that all resolve to the same IP.
> We got IMP3 to detect what domain the user was accessing and then would
> append it to their user name when sending outbound email.  I was under the
> impression that when you hide mail server options it would auto detect the
> domain and then do a similar thing so that ie. user bob could access
> webmail.testing1.com and webmail.testing2.com which both have entries in
> servers.php and due to the auto detection when bob logins he would then
> appear to be bob at testing1.com or bob at testing2.com.  For some reason
> I can't get IMP to distinguish between the virtual domains and it just
> keeps bob at testing1.com even if his url shows webmail.testing2.com.
> Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?  I appriciate any suggestions.




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