Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 07:45:10 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, Ivailo Tanusheff <i.tanusheff@procreditbank.com> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Cascading qmail servers Message-ID: <200305280745.10248.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030528125755.GA2305@pit.databus.com> References: <03f301c324f3$4e683190$faf810ac@sof.procreditbank.bg> <20030528125755.GA2305@pit.databus.com>
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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.
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Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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