On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
>
> /~~~~~~~\
> | I'NET |
> \~~~~~~~/
> | SMTP/POP
> /-------\
> |MailSvr|
> \-------/
> /\
> SMTP/POP / \ SMTP/POP
> / \
> / \
> /-----------\ /-------------\
> |CityMailSvr| |LondonMailSvr|
> | /nfs/city | | /nfs/london |
> \-----------/ \-------------/
>
> OK As you can see, /nfs/city on the City Mail server is mounted as
> /nfs/city on the Main mail server, and ditto with /nfs/london. This
> means that whatever the main server can see is in the home dir for
> each user, is the home dir on both servers. Any .qmail file there is
> is used from whichever server. This means that your suggestion would
> create a loop, since at each of our subsidiary servers (city, london),
> mail to @hillsong.com is attempted to be delivered locally, and if it
Ding! You don't forward to @hillsong.com, you forward to @city.hillsong.com.
Anything to hillsong.com is obviously destined for MailSvr; anything to
city.hillsong.com is local.
(BTW, I've been assuming that "city" is a construct meaning "whatever
cities have local servers", and is not a literal. Right?)
-dsr-
