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* each gateway can make decisions on whether to accept/reject mail for the users at the domain
* each gateway can make decisions on whether to accept/reject mail for the users at the domain
===User accounts===
====Multiple users with the same name on different domains====
''The Manuel contains a detailed explanation here [http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter9#Pseudonyms], however, this question is frequently asked in the forums and this FAQ was added in response to this thread [http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=41558.0;all]''
SME only supports one name set, so you cannot have multiple user accounts for the same user (eg joe) at different domains, you can only have one user account for joe which applies to all domains.
The workaround is to create user accounts with a different name to what will be used as an email address.
eg.
*create user account joe1
*create user account joe2
*create user account joe3
'''DO NOT create a user account for joe'''
*create pseudonym for joe@domain1 which forwards to user account joe1
*create pseudonym for joe@domain2 which forwards to user account joe2
*create pseudonym for joe@domain3 which forwards to user account joe3
joe1 logs in using joe1 but advertises their email address as joe@domain1
Your main or primary domain is created during initial setup in the admin console, Configure this server.
Your additional domains are created using the Domains panel, and are called Virtual domains, but they function virtually identically to the main domain. In the Domains panel, you select an ibay for the content that will apply to virtual domain web sites.
The mail server accepts mail for all valid domains (either the main or virtual), and delivers the mail to end user acounts or pseudonym addresses.
Note you do not need to use pseudonyms.
You can just do the following.
*create user account joe1 with effective email address of joe1@domain1
*create user account joe2 with effective email address of joe2@domain2
*create user account joe3 with effective email address of joe3@domain3
This arrangement will work fine, but note that if email is inadvertantly sent to joe2@domain1 then joe2 will still receive that email (rather than joe1).
External users would not really be sending to joe2@domain1 as that address has never been advised to anyone as being active.
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