While I am TRULY impressed with the solutions that Grant and Dusty have come
up with on this issue, I remain with my previous opinion that you would need
to set up the two separate virtual domains. (ny1.domain.com &
ny2.domain.com) My opinion, though I did not expound on it before, is based
on the practical part of the equation. Right now Shyam, you are required to
do no maintenance of users on your IMAIL box and the customer gets to
create, add, edit, and remove users on the fly without your involvement.
Either of the suggestions given will require you to at least maintain info
for each individual user account for at least on of your customers
locations. This means your customer loses flexibility and speed of service
and you gain new work. I think that customers like to sound big and are
usually easily sold on using north.domain.com and east.domain.com or
service.domain.com or whatever, and then your customer can keep using SOHO
type solutions but are also ready for future growth. (Wow what a sentence)
I have had to sell some people on these types of implementations and they
have thanked me when they grew for pushing them to do the right thing up
front.
The other option I thought of was to have their POP-grab-box at office 1
set all office2 users into one POP box there, that would then be picked up
by the POP-grab-box at office 2. Then you are out of the picture except to
get it to them at POP-grab-box @ office 1. I still think that would be a
less scalable solution, and that separate sub-domains are the right thing to
do.
Best Regards,
-V
Disclaimer: Disagreeing with Dusty 2000 or gentlemen from Indiana is not
always a wise move and can be hazardous to new list members. I think one of
them might have access to the Kill list. :-) If I am never heard from again
you know what happened!
----- Original Message -----
From: ## Dusty Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Part Aliasing
> Let me see if I understand the scenario. You have a virtual
> domain with no users actually listed on the Imail server.
> You have the nobody alias set up pointing to point to one
> box. Now they come in and retrieve mail via POP3 and
> distribute it to their users locally. Am I right so far?
>
> Okay, here is one way you could do this using rules.
> Have all users in office B mail routed to another folder
> in the abc box.
>
> T~[EMAIL PROTECTED]:office2
>
> Now when office 2 wants to retrieve their mail they simply
> login as abc-office2 and only get the mail for users in that
> office. This would require a little extra effort on their part as
> they would need to set up a rule for each new user in that
> office. Office 1 would not see any change.
>
> So the scenario ends up like this.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets mail and it goes to the abc box.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets mail and it goes to the abc-office2 box
> because of a rule that says T~[EMAIL PROTECTED]:office2.
>
> Dusty
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shyam Majmudar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 4:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Part Aliasing
>
>
> > Dusty,
> > Your expert comments.
> >
> > SM
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Vaughn Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 8:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Part Aliasing
> >
> >
> > seems to me like you would have to do the ny1.domain.com and ny2...
> > -V
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Shyam Majmudar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 8:45 AM
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Part Aliasing
> >
> >
> > > Can we have part aliasing done in Imail? We have a customer having
> > multiple
> > > offices of which till now they were using mailing at one office. For
> which
> > I
> > > have setup the Ipless domain to have all mails sent to their domain
> > xyz.com
> > > to go to a particular mailbox named abc. For which i have created a
> > mailbox
> > > abc & specified for "nobody" aliases to abc, after which mailserver at
> the
> > > customer's place named "Sohopop" does the local distribution. Now they
> > want
> > > to set it up at the other offices where they want to have those user's
> to
> > > receive their mails at that office. But as i have already used the
> > "nobody"
> > > alias for that particular domain to go to abc, can i use the same
domain
> > for
> > > the other offices or do i have to do subdomains for those offices like
> > > ny1.xyz.com, ny2.xyz.com etc & if the same domain can be used how do i
> > > setup?
> > >
> > > Can somebody please help.
> > >
> > > SM
>
>
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