Well,
> I'd suggest you compile exim or grab an exim rpm ... then rtfm in the exim
faq
> - there's a way to do this (it'll check if the mail can be delivered
locally,
> if not local then it will send it to the mailserver for onward
transmission).
I'll try that out.... surely.
>
> In any case, the easiest way is to set up subdomains - delhi.xyz.com,
> bombay.xyz.com etc etc - where the user's [EMAIL PROTECTED] is actually an alias
for
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. That way, sendmail itself can easily determine
that the
> user is local and it won't bother to send to the bombay mailserver ...
>
You mean that on the delhi.example.com server I set up mail aliases for the
local users as [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] so that sendmail itself
forwards all the other mails to the relay server of the ISP.
Yeah thats a good idea too, I'll revert back after trying this too.
> Whatever it be ;) The best way for mailing inside your network without
much
> hassle is to set up a UUCP connection between your local lan servers - and
have
> a uucp-smtp gateway at the local mailserver.
U mean a UUCP nodename for each local LAN which downloads mails from the
main server on the Internet using UUCP and the UUCP mail copy is done by
each node on connection to the net??
Can you give a bit more detail on the setup of UUCP for this with individual
nodename mappings??
I think I still am not clear with the concept of how UUCP works in case of
mails.
>
> If you had static IPs for each lan then it'd be trivial to alias the
user's
> mailboxes to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc - the delivery
would
> be local / across the net quite intelligently, that way.
>
If there were static IP's the problem would have been solved as we could
directly use the main mail server on the net for incoming mail server. No
hassels then.
> For lans connected to the net via dialups, you might try UUCP if you dont
want
> to go for lots of static ips, leased lines etc etc.
>
I would need help on UUCP too as I tried to configure UUCP some time back
but without ample efforts from my side and without much resources to read, I
left the thing half way through.
Anyway I'll try exim and the aliasing thing first.
Thanx a ton.
I had some other queries too regarding mail filtering on the mail server for
viruses etc. I am trying to download the trial version of the Norton
firewall product which works in the firewall but would definitely like to
hear from anyone who has actually implemented any kind of virus scanning on
the mail hub itself, which uses a typical setup of sendmail.
Would revert back with more details as such.
VaibhaV
PS: ain't this mail server configuration stuff interesting when it starts
working :-)
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