Good question !!
This mail is coming from Lotus Notes :-)
Tell me what u mean by push technology.
AFAIK the Lotus Notes client has to contact the server for every button
click.
If fact, in the mail settings u have to specify how often u want the client
to check the mail....
ciao,
amit
"sandesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/23/99 12:44:43 AM
Please respond to "sandesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Linux Users Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: (bcc: Amit Kucheria/LTITLVSH)
Subject: Re: Push technology mail in Linux OS
Are you sure that lotus notes uses push technology ????!!!
I don't think so ...
Any comments ...
>this was not my question???
>Actually I want to implement as a mail system similar to Lotus notes using
>linux mail server and outlook express as the mail/groupware client.similar
>to push technology of LOTUS notes.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vinod Balakrishnan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 12:02 AM
>To: D S Domal; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Push technology mail in Linux OS
>
>
>On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, D S Domal wrote:
>
>> We install Linux (Red-hot 5.2) mail server in our office which is on a
>> Novell NetWare 5 and client is with win'95 using outlook as a mail
client
>> to send & receive mail. Know we want to implement push technology on
>Linux
>> mail server i.e. when mail comes to any user it should push the mail to
>> that particular user instantly this will save our time instead of
>checking
>> mail in every 15 minutes. Can any one help on this issue.
>
>Hi,
>
>(NOTE: This may sound slightly cryptic to those who're new to DNS and
>mailservers. I'm sorry about that but this is the best I can do for a
>short explanation in the right direction. A detailed discussion could
>ensue at one of our meetings, probably after we go through the relavant
>HOWTO's)
>
> What you're looking at is a good DNS setup! You have to setup a
>primary DNS in your main office which talks to subdomainized secondary DNS
>at the locations from where you plan to check mail every 15 min (lets
>call this location xyz). You need a master alias file on the primary DNS
>which has to be replicated (and kept sync'ed) on the secondary DNS as
>well.
> Now, when you receive a mail on your main office server, it does a
>DNS lookup for the recipient and it finds that he/she is at 'xyz'. You
>have to specify in the secondary DNS that the MX (mail exchanger) for the
>location xyz is your linux machine (mailserver) at that location. So it
>forwards the mail for that recipient to your mailserver at location xyz.
>
>That solves your problem.
>
>regards
>Vinod
>
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