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'''Practical usage guidelines'''

'''Practical usage guidelines'''

An SME Server has only one name set, meaning only one occurrence of a name can be in the system, whether it be a user, a group, a pseudonym or an ibay.  

An SME Server has only one name set, meaning only one occurrence of a name can be in the system, whether it be a user, a group, a pseudonym or an ibay. Therefore whenever you create a user account and you have multiple domains, then that user will apply to all domains automatically.  

So the user account "sales" will receive email for:

 

*sales@domain1  

So the user account "sales" will receive email for  

*sales@domain2  

sales@domain1  

*sales@domain3  

sales@domain2  

*sales@domain4  

sales@domain3  

sales@domain4  

The problem with this is that you cannot have different people using the same user account name to collect email.  

The problem with this is that you cannot have different people using the same user account name to collect email.  

The golden rule is never allocate unique user names to end users accounts as these will no longer be available for globalname@domain type email address usage.  

The golden rule is never allocate unique user names to end users accounts as these will no longer be available for globalname@domain type email address usage.  

eg create your domains eg domain1, domain2, domain3, domain4 and configure those domains to use different ibays for the web content.  

*create your domains eg domain1, domain2, domain3, domain4 and configure those domains to use different ibays for the web content. You can even setup different groups to allow only different users to access each ibay to update web content etc.  

You can even setup different groups to allow only different users to access each ibay to update web content etc.  

 

 

create user accounts user9, user10, user11, user12 as needed for users who want to use the email address "accounts", but keep in mind they will use the login name user9 etc rather than accounts

*create user accounts user1, user2, user3, user4 as needed for users who want to use the email address "sales", but keep in mind they will use the login name user1 rather than sales (the login names could be johnb, johnb2, johnw, johnm etc)

create pseudonyms eg

*create user accounts user5, user6, user7, user8 as needed for users who want to use the email address "info", but keep in mind they will use the login name user5 etc rather than info

sales@domain1 which forwards to user1

info@domain1 which forwards to user5

*create user accounts user9, user10, user11, user12 as needed for users who want to use the email address "accounts", but keep in mind they will use the login name user9 etc rather than accounts

accounts@domain1 which forwards to user9  

accounts@domain2 which forwards to user10  

accounts@domain3 which forwards to user11

accounts@domain4 which forwards to user12

**accounts@domain1 which forwards to user9  

**accounts@domain2 which forwards to user10  

**accounts@domain3 which forwards to user11

**accounts@domain4 which forwards to user12

ie. in the pseudonyms field type the whole pseudonym name as sales@domain1  

ie. in the pseudonyms field type the whole pseudonym name as sales@domain1  

See this thread for details  

See this thread for details  

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30953.0  

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=30953.0

 

====Information Bays====

====Information Bays====

The i-bay (information bay) feature of the SME Server is a simple, very flexible and powerful way for you to share information with others. It is such a rich and important feature that we've devoted [http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter14 Chapter 14] entirely to dealing with Information Bays.

The i-bay (information bay) feature of the SME Server is a simple, very flexible and powerful way for you to share information with others. It is such a rich and important feature that we've devoted [http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter14 Chapter 14] entirely to dealing with Information Bays.