-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Smoke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 1:34 PM
To: John White
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: qmail domain heiarchy
>
>> 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?
remote schools...
Is any internet connection really up all the time?....believe me ...it's
enough to worry about.
I am completely open to suggestion on how to go about this...i explained
everything....
>> when the connection comes up, messages are sent....transparently.
>Sent where? You only have a single qmail server, right?
To the main qmail server at bryant.k12.ar.us....yes, at this point a single
qmail server.....
I would like to have some sort of system that catches mail to this server,
checks the headers against a list of local users(take one of our elementary
schools for example....a list of 20 teachers on stored on the proxy that the
mail is checked against) if mail matches a user, deliver it to said user via
a qmail process on local proxy.
Basically I'm wondering if I can cluster the main bryant.k12.ar.us qmail
server out with processes on the proxy server....somehow.....
If one node is undetected...no prob...all other mail is delivered
normally....queued mail is delivered when connection is back up....
> >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.
??? pop3, smtp....lost internet connection at remote sites...
>Can you clear up those points?
>John White
