subdomain account and emails

[dinek]

Hello,
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this question but... here it goes.
Is it possible for DA to create a subdomain account (with all the management features) ie dino.domain.com but with an email dino@domain.com not dino@dino.domain.com.

Would it be possible?
Dino

[existenz]

You will not be able to create a new seperate account with those features without modifying some of the config files on your system.

[nobaloney]

To get what you call "all the management features" you'll need to create what DA calls a "user" account hosting, for example, subdomain.example.com.

DA will then treat them as to completely separate domains.

The user controlling subdomain.example.com will be able to set up mailboxes for user@subdomain.example.com, but not for user@example.com.

But the user who controls example.com can then set up forwards for "user@example.com" to be forwarded to user@subdomain.example.com.

Jeff

[dinek]

Hi,

First of all thanks for your suggestions.

Jeff - the forwarding option would be an easy way around it... hadn't though of it.

Existenz - what kind of modifications would that require?

Thanks. Dino.

[DirectAdmin Support]

If you want all the control of a seperate domain with the same email data, you can just create dino.domain.com normally as a sepearte domain, then run this:

cd /etc/virtual
rm -rf dino.domain.com
ln -s domain.com dino.domain.com

cd /var/spool/virtual
rm -rf dino.domain.com
ln -s domain.com dino.domain.com

Exim will never know the difference. All email data will dump into the same inbox for both domains.

John