Hi Henrik,
Haven't heard of FirstClass. I'm going to presume that the client
machines (Windows? Mac? Does it matter?) run some sort of proprietary
FirstClass client software to talk to the server....as such, your qmail
machine is likely to be working only as an MX host, and/or outgoing mail
spool.
If FC accepts mail via SMTP, you can still use qmail in your solution any
number of ways. If you wish to keep the FC server in a private
network, you can let the qmail box be the exposed machine. It works
like this.
+ all mail is MX'd to qmail.gammadata.se
+ /var/qmail/control/smtproutes includes the following lines:
gammadata.se:firewall.gammadata.se
.gammadata.se:firewall.gammadata.se
+ now firewall.gammadata.se allows connections on port 25 from
qmail.gammadata.se which are redirected to your FC server,
which only accepts connections from qmail.gammadata.se (or the
inside interface of your firewall depending on how the inbound
redirection is accomplished).
+ all outbound mail can also be sent via SMTP to qmail.gammadata.se,
and you can let it handle the domain lookups and so forth.
+ this will allow you maximum qmail control over the mail until you
become accustomed to FC and how it works.
I'm sorry to hear that you are being required to move away from qmail.
Anyway, I'd be surprised if FC didn't support SMTP, so you should probably
let the two servers talk to each other with SMTP. Then you don't have to
worry about POP3 transfer of mail....that would be a rather inelegant
solution (no offense intended).
If you don't have a firewall in the middle, I suppose it's going to be
considerably easier.
Best of luck,
-Martin
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Martin A. Brown --- Wonderfrog Enterprises --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Henrik [iso-8859-1] �hman wrote:
:
:Hi,
:I'm facing an installation of FirstClass in our company, and while I've
:been told that FC has an excellent mail service, I'd still like to use
:our current qmail-server for recieving mail which FirstClass can then
:retrieve from the mail server (perhaps through pop3.)
:
:I don't know much about FirstClass, so I wonder if anyone here has any
:experiences with integrating FC with qmail. If there is some better
:method than using pop3, if there is a simple way to add new
:FC-discussion groups automatically to the mail server or if I should let
:everything that's being adressed to FC-discussion groups go through FC's
:own mail server.
:
:If so, please give me a (brief) explanation of your solution. (And mail
:me directly if you consider this non-relevant and want to keep noise
:away from the list.)
:
:Thanks, Henrik.
:
:
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