On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 14:44, Bruno Negrão wrote: > > > > How about 2 qmail installs? > > After you install qmail once, change conf-qmail to have a qmail2. > > make setup check again, and you have a 2nd qmail install. > > > > In there, change smtproutes to point your domain to your 2nd server. > > > > Then for each user that exists on the 2nd server, make a .qmail-default > > with: > > |/var/qmail2/bin/forward [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > (remember to run your qmail-send process from the 2nd install, or > > nothing will go out - Yes yes.. It got me :) > Rick, are you currently using this?
For a whole domain. Not per user. > It seems you omitted that I would have to make the same thing in the second > server, creating .qmail files forwarding messages to the users configured > in the 1st server. No, if you create a .qmail-default for each user that needs to be forwarded, you only need to create THOSE users on the 2nd server. > I think this configuration isn't scalable. What would happen if I'd like to > split the domain through 3 or more machines? Or if I'd like to split other > domains through other servers? It would became an administration > nightmare... don't you think? Then I'd set a flag, or create a field in MySQL - and look at using maildrop for the redirection, after a perl script checks for the routing information. > > The qmail-ldap still appears to be the best solution. The only disadvantage > is, besides I'll be obligated to understand all about LDAP concepts, > qmail-ldap seems to be difficult to install and configure at a first look. That's the main reason I suggested just using a 2nd qmail install. It's easy to create, and there's really nothing special about it. > This gonna be a lot of work... No matter how you do it, breaking up a domain based on username is going to take a lot of work. Rick > Regards, > bruno.
