HELP: Distributed mail system
Hello, I have a very interesting situation here. I have two servers, host1.mydomain.com and host2.mydomain.com. I have host1 as the primary mail server in the DNS-MX record. Both the hosts have qmail-1.03 installed in it. I have user mailboxes in both the server: user1, user2, user3 in host1 user4, user5, user6 in host2. Now i would like to make qmail in my whole system work in such a way that any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to user1, user2, user3 in HOST1 whereas mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to mailboxes user4, user5, user6 in HOST2. Later i would like to implement these concepts to my hosts in different cities (POP) so that every user of our network will have same template of e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) without any mention of the hostname of the server in his/her city. If anybody has any idea making this distributed system, please help. Thanks in advance. Jason
HELP: Distributed mail system
Hello, I have a very interesting situation here. I have two servers, host1.mydomain.com and host2.mydomain.com. I have host1 as the primary mail server in the DNS-MX record. Both the hosts have qmail-1.03 installed in it. I have user mailboxes in both the server: in HOST1: user1, user2, user3 in HOST2: user4, user5, user6 Now i would like to make qmail in my whole system work in such a way that any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to user1, user2, user3 in HOST1 whereas mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to mailboxes user4, user5, user6 in HOST2. Later i would like to implement these concepts to my hosts in different cities (POP) so that every user of our network will have same template of e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) without any mention of the hostname of the server in his/her city. If anybody has any idea making this distributed system, please help. Thanks in advance. Jason
Re: HELP: Distributed mail system
Jason Brown writes: > in HOST1: user1, user2, user3 > in HOST2: user4, user5, user6 > > Now i would like to make qmail in my whole system work in such a way > that any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to user1, user2, user3 in HOST1 > whereas mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to mailboxes user4, user5, user6 in > HOST2. echo '|forward "$LOCAL@HOST2"' >host1:~alias/.qmail-default echo '|forward "$LOCAL@HOST1"' >host2:~alias/.qmail-default A little more complication will let you generate a better bounce message if someone sends mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!
Re: HELP: Distributed mail system
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jason Brown wrote: > Hello, > > I have a very interesting situation here. I have two servers, > host1.mydomain.com and host2.mydomain.com. I have host1 as the primary > mail server in the DNS-MX record. Both the hosts have qmail-1.03 > installed in it. > > I have user mailboxes in both the server: > > in HOST1: user1, user2, user3 > in HOST2: user4, user5, user6 > > Now i would like to make qmail in my whole system work in such a way > that any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to user1, user2, user3 in HOST1 > whereas mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] be delivered to mailboxes user4, user5, user6 in > HOST2. > > Later i would like to implement these concepts to my hosts in > different cities (POP) so that every user of our network will have > same template of e-mail address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) without any > mention of the hostname of the server in his/her city. put the maildirs on a high-performance server using RAID and a logging filesystem (eg sun's online disksuite). cross-mount the filestores between the servers. Users then read mail from their maildirs usinf qmail-pop3d off any of the servers. front-end the servers with a number of qmail systems which deliver over NFS. you can then play around with secondary interface addresses on the popmail servers to publish the same IP address at each city which is assosiated with (say) pop.mydomain.com and is then routed to the nearest pop-server RjL
