> How does using ldap2alias change my backup mail structure? On the backup, you create actual IMail virtual hosts in the form storeforward.example.com, with example.com as a host alias. You also ensure that the mailbox server can accept mail to, say, mailbox.example.com in addition to example.com. Then you use mailbox.example.com as the target domain in the aliases created by ldap2aliases.
> In short they told me that a domain with the mailbox domain as an > alias will never forward messages to the domain. Yep, that's why you route via mailbox.example.com. > I was told that the hosts file was a better option for backup mail > servers. Completely preposterous. Doing it that way is like ordering a live-in lover for your favorite spammer. > and can you explain how you have both IMail and DNS setup to make it > work. Vis-a-vis DNS, you can use HOSTS to force the mailroute to mailbox.example.com, _or_ use DNS only to allow for multiple next hops toward the mailbox server. > Also when the mailbox domain is down how do I prevent the backup > mail servers from passing the message between each other. The backup will try to send mail to mailbox.example.com through either the one (1) server it retrieves from HOSTS or however many MXs it retrieves from DNS. There's no looping, since you'll be setting it up to only connect to mailbox.example.com through your own new mailroutes. > I want to make sure if the mailbox domain is down the backup mail > server holds the message, not forward it to another backup mail > server, to another , to another..... That's not going to happen. > Also if backup1.mydomain.com provides backup for a mailserver I can not get > aliases for is better to use the host file to forward mail or add a virtual > domain with the nobody alias? HOSTS and 'nobody' are basically identical. HOSTS is easier to set up, used 'onlyifyoumust' for servers whose user lists can't be accessed. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.mailmage.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
