At the University of Minnesota Duluth we use imp authtentication via imap to a set of servers running perdition. The perdition box then determines which server the user resides on and makes an imap connection.
Tobias Drewry wrote: > BOn Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Tim Bannister wrote: > >>> I have successfully setup two qmail-ldap servers with its native >>> qmail-ldap clustering support. Using the mailHost (ldap) attribute, I >>> am able to send mail to someone and that mail will be correctly >>> delivered to the correct host as specified in mailHost. So, half of my >>> users will have their mails in server-A and the other half in >>> server-B. Both mail servers have IMAP and running fine. All user >>> accounts are stored in server-A. >>> >>> I have a third server (server-C) that I will use to run IMP (and some >>> web pages). How do I configure IMP so that it will know from which >>> server to get a particular mail from, for a particular user ? Can I do >>> this without any extra hardware? >> You can also write a preauthenticate hook that sets the IMAP server to >> the host on which their mail is stored. >> >> -- >> Tim Bannister > > At Boston University we do both. We use preauthentication checking to > determine which of the 10 mail servers someone's account lives on and > reconfigure IMP dynamically to reflect the server involved. Failing that > we have an IMAP-Proxy which should route them to the right place, albeit > with a few more hops. The IMAP-Proxy is really there to handle external > IMAP connections for our clients. > > -- > Tobias Drewry > Boston University > -- Robert Sand. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1028 Kirby Drive 366 K Plz Duluth, MN 55812-3095 218-726-6122 fax 218-726-7674 "Walk behind me I may not lead, Walk in front of me I may not follow, Walk beside me and we walk together" UTE Tribal proverb. -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
