This is okay,
But how about a user on the local LAN sending a mail to a user outside the
local LAN but who has the same kind of mail ID like @example.com. How does
sendmail know about this user's location?
VaibhaV
----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Multiple locations mail setup.
> 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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