On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 14:57, Rick Romero wrote: > 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 only way to avoid creating users on each of those multiple servers would be to use MySQL replication. Then you still only have 1 point of administration, and your maildrop/perl/SQL thingy in your .qmail-default would do the forwarding for you (when you create the user, you'd set the 'home server' for your forwarding script). Your script could call a separate qmail install for each remote server, or use subdomains like someone else suggested. > > > > 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.
