Does it make sense to use the whole fetchmail/procmail thing? Is the
headquarters server always connected to the net? If it is use
qmail-ldap in cluster mode. Headquarters users have their "mailHost"
variable set to the headquarters server, everyone else has uses the
hosted server. Point your domain MX record at the hosted server, and it
will forward all the headquarters users mail to the headquarters server.
Mark Farver
Amit wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to setup a qmail-ldap setup to the following scenario
wherein I have 2 servers - One server is hosted at my local office
premises and another server is colocated at a data center. I have
total 1000 users in my company, out of which 300 users are in head
office and the rest 700 users are scattered across the country in
different remote regions. The server for head office users is a local
server and will be used as a local imap server too. The colocated
server will serve mostly POP3 and sometimes IMAP access to users as
per my choice.
I am facing some problem regarding the setup of local server at my H.O
- Consider this scenario
1. All mails for my domain example.com will be received on the IDC
server, and .qmail files are being used to forward mails of all head
office users to a common catchall account for my domain, lets say
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2. A user account on the local Server will download all these mails
using fetchmail to a mail directory.
3. These mails will then be re-delivered by procmail to the
appropriate local head office users' mailboxes.
4. Suppose, when a local head office user sends a mail to someone
outside the head office, it will be forwarded to the IDC server as
all rest of the mail accounts are hosted on the IDC server.
While I am sure of implementing step 1 and 2, I am totally confused
about implementing step 3 and 4. How do I make procmail deliver
received mails to user's email inboxes?....I have read Procmail
documentation just to get a hang of how procmail does....I have gone
through some receipes in some online tutorials, but no one matches
close to my requirement.... The main question I have is - How will my
mail system find out if the user to whom I am sending mail is a local
user or remote user, and that whether his account exists on IDC server
and not, so accordingly the mail gets forwarded to colocated server
automatically...?
I would highly appreciate if anyone can guide me on how and what
configuration will be needed in qmail-ldap setup in order to achieve
step 4 ...For step 3, I am aware that probably expecting help from a
qmail-ldap list on procmail might be too big an ask, but if someone
can guide me to a procmail tut around that could have me get
closer...it would be great.
Thanks n Regards,
Amit
