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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:57:55 -0400
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.com>
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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:29:50AM +0300, Ivailo Tanusheff wrote:
> Because of the bandwidth of the mail traffic I'll need to install some
> local mail servers in each office. My question is: how to configure the
> main server and local servers in offices, so each mail send to
> xxx.whatever.com, after receiving by mail.whatever.com to be forwarded
> to the proper mail server. Keep in mind, that there are too many
> accounts to make aliases for each. Also I'll need my users to send
> e-mails trough their local mail servers in the organization and to
> internet. And also I want to keep part of the e-mail accounts on the
> main server for the whatever.com domain itself. 

Don't assume that you can't create an alias for each user.  When I
worked at a very large NY bank, with well over 100,000 employees,
/etc/mail/aliases was that big, and sendmail worked just fine.

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Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.