On 26/02/04 11:01 +0500, George K Cyriac wrote: > With aliases we may be able to receive mails addressed to two domains > in the same mailbox, but that doesnot serve my purpose. > > I have two mail servers one with 2 GB RAM at Chennai and the second > with 256 MB RAM at Trivandrum with identical users and passwords. > The Chennai Server is hosted with an ISP on a 2 MB bandwitdh, but the > Trivandrum server is in a 256 KB cable line. If I can receive mails In aliases, foo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] That should do the trick for you, provided you set chn.example.com and tvm.example.com correctly in the DNS.
> simultaneously on both servers, I can have a real backup. If the Main > Server at Chennai fails, I can move the second server to Chennai and > make it online within 24 hours. Till that time, the secondary Mail > Exchanger will queue mails. Also the Trivandrum server is connected to What secondary MX? I would just change primary MX in the DNS. Much easier than physically moving boxen :). > our LAN network and the local users can access it faster. Since the > bandwidth at Trivandrum is less, delivery will be slower, but if it I wouldn't think so. Not for small mail sizes. > is an urgent mail, they can pick it from Chennai Server. > > I don't want to use fetchmail as the email user IDs in Trivandrum are > more than 100. Polling the main server with 100 users is not a good idea. 4 parallel fetchmails getting 25 users each? 5 x 20? Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
