Hi All,

Here is the situation.

We have two locations, X and Y which are geographically far apart. At
X, we run a courier mail server, and at Y, we run a CRM software. This
software polls the server at X using POP3.

This CRM software's POP client is buggy I guess - every now and then the
client goes to sleep eating up CPU cycles and bandwidth without actually
achieving anything. So, we have decided to have a server at location Y
itself, so that the POP transaction will at least be over ethernet. There
is a further complication that the MX of all the domains (or rather, the
entry point of all emails into our control) has to be hosted at location
X. There are a large number of domains configured on the server at X -
we want the mails that arrive at X to be pushed to another server at Y
(which will also run courier).

What I want to try is: For each domain xyz.com, the courier server at X
(X server) will have an entry in esmtpacceptmailfor and esmtproutes. The
server at Y (Y server) will have the same domain in esmtpacceptmailfor,
hosteddomains and will have user accounts configured.

Also, MX entries for xyz.com will have the Y server at higher
priority. But Y server will also have ipchains rules to REJECT all
traffic on port 25 unless it originates from X server.

Is my approach fine? Any better, cleaner way (basically, without resorting
to ipchains) of achieving this? I don't want to experiment since both
X and Y servers are in production, and this CRM system is my employer's
lifeline (it was moved from Exchange to Courier at my insistence ;)

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

TIA,

Binand



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