use fetchmail to recieve the required mails from the internet serer. on
each of the city servers use the mail aliases file to alias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to username a for those users who are in the same city
...I'm not sure if this will work but it should be possible...
VaibhaV Sharma wrote:
>
> I think, I need to clarify more on my problem,
>
> The individual lan's are in different cities. All of them have a linux
> server to connect to the Intermet.
>
> What I want is that if users A and B are in delhi i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] are in delhi and C and D are in mumbai i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and what we want is that if a user in delhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is on the same server then the mail
> should get to the user's local mailbox immediately.
>
> But if the user [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is not in delhi but in bombay, then the mail has to go
> to the mail server on the internet which is hosting kind of an account we
> have taken with individual pop3 accounts for [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc.
>
> In all locations the user uses the internal Linux server as the incoming and
> the outgoing mail server. The server connects regularly to the Internet to
> collect / flush mails. i.e. the delhi server would pick up mails for
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the bombay server would pick up mails
> for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The suers are using normal mail clients like outlook express so pine and
> MUTT are not good options.
>
> I hope u get my problem.
>
> VaibhaV
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [LIH] Multiple locations mail setup.
>
> > VaibhaV Sharma on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 rearranged electrons thusly:
> >
> > > I am facing a similar problem. What we need here is to set up different
> > > LAN's at different locations. Each of these LAN's have a seperate Linux
> > > server acting as a mail / proxy / etc. etc. server and which acts as a
> >
> > Have the mailserver centralized somewhere - you definitely need a static
> ip for
> > receiving mails, you know ;)
> >
> > > The problem is that how do we maintain a single e-mail ID format like
> > > @exampledomain.com in all the offices?? The setup would not have been
> >
> > Set pine or mutt with the sender domain as [EMAIL PROTECTED] - what is
> the
> > issue? Have the mails sent through your ISP's smtp server instead of
> direct
> > from dialup - http://linuxindia.virtualave.net/vsnlcon.html
> >
> > > This setup is a typical sendmail+fetchmail setup in all the locations.
> >
> > that is not much of an issue ... it is easy to setup fetchmail to download
> each
> > pop mailbox only to the appropriate employee's login.
> >
> > If you want to share data across all your locations, you are screwed - you
> need
> > static IPs. If you get that, set up VPN with leased lines interconnecting
> them
> > - and assign each location a class B ip block in the 10./8 range for
> allocating
> > IPs (like Bombay gets 10.1./16, Madras gets 10.2./16 etc).
> >
> > Otherwise, with just sending and receiving mail, I dont see why there is
> any
> > problem ...
> >
> > -suresh
> >
> > --
> > Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > It's called MicroShaft because that's what Mrs.Gates
> > said when she saw Bill unclothed for the first time ..
> > [as seen on news.admin.net-abuse.email]
> >
> >
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