Re: Clustering qmail servers
Tracy R Reed wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote: Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's. I guess that could work but there is no easy automated way to manage so many qmail files and we already have 1760 in there already. I think I'll just have my qmail-queue wrapper rewrite the envelope recipient address and add a headerline which is basically what qmail-alias does when it forwards an email on somewhere else. I was just wondering if anyone came up with a more correct solution but it seems not. I'd think a NFS solution would be appropriate, so the SMTP boxes and the POP boxes can all be different boxes, that access the same user directories. This is the whole point of maintaining MailDir NFS-safety isn't it? -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nothing in the definition of the word `word' says that a word has to be in a dictionary to be called one." -- Anu Garg
Re: Clustering qmail servers
I guess that depends how you set up your users, we have ours in a flat file: username [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we just run a script on that file and autocreate the .qmail files on a nightly cron job. soon I guess we'll create the flat file from an LDAP database but that's not done yet. Herbie On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Tracy R Reed wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote: Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's. I guess that could work but there is no easy automated way to manage so many qmail files and we already have 1760 in there already. I think I'll just have my qmail-queue wrapper rewrite the envelope recipient address and add a headerline which is basically what qmail-alias does when it forwards an email on somewhere else. I was just wondering if anyone came up with a more correct solution but it seems not. -- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org * Maelcum likes his flame broiled dragon on sourdough
Re: Clustering qmail servers
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:52:51PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it. Using the perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to the correct one according to a dbm/ldap/whatever lookup. Now the problem is how do I get email addressed to a particular user onto the correct server? Say I want all email for users with names from a-m to go to server1 and m-z to server2? qmail-ldap can do this. http://www.nrg4u.com and http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/ -- Henning Brauer | BS Web Services Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg http://www.bsws.de | Germany
Re: Clustering qmail servers
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote: Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's. I guess that could work but there is no easy automated way to manage so many qmail files and we already have 1760 in there already. I think I'll just have my qmail-queue wrapper rewrite the envelope recipient address and add a headerline which is basically what qmail-alias does when it forwards an email on somewhere else. I was just wondering if anyone came up with a more correct solution but it seems not. -- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org * Maelcum likes his flame broiled dragon on sourdough
Re: Clustering qmail servers
Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's. Or am I misunderstanding the question. Herbi On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Tracy R Reed wrote: I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it. Using the perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to the correct one according to a dbm/ldap/whatever lookup. Now the problem is how do I get email addressed to a particular user onto the correct server? Say I want all email for users with names from a-m to go to server1 and m-z to server2? I've searched the archives and can't find anything conclusive. I do have a perl script wrapping qmail-queue which does some basic mail filtering. I suppose I could alter the envelope "to" address appropriately to send it to the correct machine but I am wondering if there is any more elegant way to accomplish this. -- Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org My pid is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process. Prepare to vi.
