VaibhaV Sharma on Wed, Sep 06, 2000 rearranged electrons thusly:
> So I guess the thing does not work in this situation. But if you have a
> dedicated mail server then this thing would work.
Best way to go - but costly :)
> Why do you have to duplicate this on all the servers?? You map only the
> local users. like on delhi.example.com you make a mapping like
Not just that - have subdomains delhi.example.com, bombay.example.com etc on
your main mailserver, that's all. Not duplicating it across servers ...
Makes for easier control, basically.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [EMAIL PROTECTED] and this local delhi server ONLY
> accepts mails for delhi.example.com and NOT for example.com so all the mails
perfectly
> > no 'uucp for dummies' am afraid - but you could install something like
> > uucp@gift (or whatever) ... and they'd set the whole thing up for you.
> Did not get that @gift thingi.... ! Who are these "they"??
I haven't used it - but saw a pcq review of this s/w - some b'lore based
company makes it iirc (this review was at least 2 years old - around the same
time 'postmaster' came on the market)
> is that if a new office is opened how do we configure our local server here
> to send mails to the other people in the other office.
For this you _need_ uucp if not a static ip.
> Then what do you suggest for filtering virus kinda things on the mail server
> itself?
Try http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/chk89-opt.html and
http://smex.sourceforge.net (iirc)
-suresh
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