NS8 Multiple email domains and account providers?

Hi all,

I am having trouble fully understanding the capabilities of NS8 being able to handle multiple email domains connected to different account providers. Simply put, I have domain1.com and domain2.com, Aprovider1 and Aprovider2, obviously I want to connect Aprovder1 to domain1 and Aprovider2 to domain2.com

There are many old threads related to NS7 and different scenarios, but I get confused.

Would somebody be able to explain in relatively simple wording and with some examples what exactly IS possible on NS8 regarding multiple email domains and account providers .

Thanks for the effort in advance!

You can create two domains mails but the two will be received by the same user of the account provider

Stephane@domain1.com === stephane@domain2.com

You could also create alias and redirect user@domain2.com to another email box

There is no multitenant email server in NS8 since the beginning

@stephdl

Maybe @LayLow is refering to the option to use LDAPserver1 for Domain1 and LDAPserver2 for Domain2

These could be accordingly on node1 and node2.
No IP or port issues

Example:

Node1:

  • LDAPserver1
  • Mailserver1
  • MailDomain1

Node2:

  • LDAPserver2
  • Mailserver2
  • MailDomain2

As “acount provider”.

AD / LDAP would also be an option for some users here.

2 Mailservers on the same node would not work, as ports 25, 143, 993, 578 (whatever) can’t be used by two “server-apps” on the same node due to port conflicts.
Same goes for account providers.

My 2 cents
Andy

Could there be?

It seems like this topic has been discussed before, but it’s great to see continued interest in it.

Given that you’re asking about it, it appears this feature is quite important to you. Is it something that could be a game changer for your project?

Are you aware of any open-source projects that already offer this feature? Have you had any experience implementing a multi-tenant mail service with it?

Sharing your experiences could be more insightful than just discussing the theory.

Given the current implementation of Ns8, i beleive it is actually feasible to implement multi-tenancy without alot of issues, contrary to popular belief.

All the building blocks are already pre-implemented with Ns8, ofcourse with NS7 would be hard but in NS8, youve actually done it without knowing that you have.

Afew tweaks to how the mail oruting to user is handled would perfectly achive multi tenancy.

However, it would require each tenant has its own Account provider, even if the accoutn providers re on the same Node.
this is mainly die to how some components are already implemented.

There are potentially alot of Opensource Email server implementations, some heavy and others Lite.

Mailcow is a popular One, thats implemented with Docker off the bat
Iredmail is another example, still light but more heavier than mailcow
Madoboa is another one

with all these solutions, the underlying technologies and components are the same that NS is also using.

It would be. In general I am confused on how we use all this technology, containers, clustering etc etc but lack the ability of a ‘simple’ email domain per account provider at the least.

My experience is that I miss the ability to have multiple seperate email domains on a single machine/node/vps/virtual machine.

Thanks for your considerations.

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