Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:11:58 +0700 (JAVT) From: V Gatut Harijoso <gatut@student.unpar.ac.id> To: chas <sweeting@tm.net.my> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To support 2k users.. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971021110548.3955D-100000@student.unpar.ac.id> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971020195356.8014F-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Tom wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, chas wrote: > > Sorry to trouble you, > > Just a simple question that has been intriguing me for > > a while - if you have 5K users, on several boxes. > > How do you make them all have the same email domain ? > > userx@domain.com ? > You do header rewriting (or masquerading, depending on your MTA), to > rewrite all e-mail to come from the common domain. For receiving mail, > you keep a database of what host holds what mailbox, and keep the > database synced between servers, then route it over to the correct server > (if needed). Easy to do in Sendmail (and Exim, or Smail). > I much prefer putting e-mail on a dedicated, closed server. Basically a > server per task, rather than a bunch of servers all doing the same tasks. > > > ie. If you have your users split over 4 boxes, and all > > with userx@domain.com, how do you route mail to the > > correct box ? > > > > Apologies if I am overlooking something obvious, > > > > Chas A simple idea. Example: If you have dedicated server for receiving mail. Use this to be your @domain.com. For sendmail, edit your /etc/aliases like this: gatut: gatut@student.unpar.ac.id chas: tom@tm.net.my So, mail to gatut@domain.com will be forwarded to me, and mail to chas@domain.com to you. > Tom
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