On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 01:52:35PM -0500, Barry Smoke wrote:
> >Who is they? The remote schools? All connections? How "dedicated"
> >is a connection which is often down?
>
> remote schools...
Ok.
> 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.
I really just don't understand what you mean here.
> 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....
It sounds like what you might want to do is put a qmail server on
each of the servers at each of the location. Make the terminal
delivery point for each teacher the qmail server at his location.
It's pretty simple, then, to make a .qmail entry for each teacher
at a remote location, forwarding mail the qmail server for that
location.
For example, if teacherA is at schoolN, this would be put in
bryant.k12.ar.us's mx:
~teacherA/.qmail:
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >i would like to do this without running other domains....
Not quite sure what you mean by that.
> >I'm not sure how you want each person at each school to receive mail.
> ??? pop3, smtp....
Oh, in that case, just have the mail delivered by smtp. The
teachers can then retrieve their mail via pop3.
I'm asking whether you want teachers at remote locations to
have their mail delivered to a local qmail server so mail
can be retrieved during a network connection outage, or whether
having the mail at a single qmail server which would require
the network connection being up to check mail.
In other words, you seem to have a specific path of delivery
in mind. What the hell is it?
Hint:
smtp and pop3 are not valid answers.
John White
