From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 07:45:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C088237B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 07:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227DC43F3F for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 07:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.homeunix.net (66-91-236-204.san.rr.com [66.91.236.204]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E1C71BF7F; Wed, 28 May 2003 07:45:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Barney Wolff , Ivailo Tanusheff Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:45:10 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <03f301c324f3$4e683190$faf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg> <20030528125755.GA2305@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <20030528125755.GA2305@pit.databus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305280745.10248.wes@softweyr.com> cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: Cascading qmail servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:45:14 -0000 On Wednesday 28 May 2003 05:57 am, Barney Wolff wrote: > 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. In sendmail, you can do domain routing with mailertable. I think you can do the same in Postfix with relay_domains. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com