On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 12:22:12PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote:
> I am the network administrator for a public school system in ARkansas.....
> We have just implemented a single qmail mail server for the
> district....which consists of 8 schools, on 5 different site locations. our
> 4 remote elementary schools have 384K dedicated internet connections....and
> our main campus has a t-1, that feeds 4 schools plus administration.
> The new mail system was put on a single domain on an ip for the main campus.
> The 4 remote elementaries have different ip numbers/subnet masks....
>
> when their internet connection is out....which happens often, I would like
> for local e-mail delivery to still work, while all remote messages are put
> in que.
Who is they? The remote schools? All connections? How "dedicated"
is a connection which is often down?
> when the connection comes up, messages are sent....transparently.
Sent where? You only have a single qmail server, right?
> i would like to do this without running other domains....
> Each remote site...(and the main campus for that matter) is connected to a
> transparent masquerading proxy (firewall) server....is this possible...maybe
> with port forwarding....firewall rules...runing a qmail server on each local
> proxy?
> I don't have a clue where to start with this.
I'm not sure how you want each person at each school to receive mail.
On top of that, I'm unsure about what failure scenario you're
concerned about.
Can you clear up those points?
John White
