From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 05:57:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A2437B401; Wed, 28 May 2003 05:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pit.databus.com (p70-227.acedsl.com [66.114.70.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380A843F75; Wed, 28 May 2003 05:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: from pit.databus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pit.databus.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4SCvu9r002644; Wed, 28 May 2003 08:57:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from barney@pit.databus.com) Received: (from barney@localhost) by pit.databus.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4SCvtXc002643; Wed, 28 May 2003 08:57:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:57:55 -0400 From: Barney Wolff To: Ivailo Tanusheff Message-ID: <20030528125755.GA2305@pit.databus.com> References: <03f301c324f3$4e683190$faf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03f301c324f3$4e683190$faf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.33 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: FreeBSD Net cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Cascading qmail servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 12:57:59 -0000 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. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.