You shouldn't need to do anything on that server (server2) for mary to get her mail. Post offices can accept mail addressed like @abc.com because the MX record tells the sending post office to direct it to server1.abc.com. A post office will also accept mail addressed like @server2.abc.com but this time the sending post office doesn't need the MX record because you already told it the host part (server2). In affect, you are bypassing the MX by telling it to send to a specific server.
Now, a small twist: When you put a domain into a post office, you are making that the authoritative server for mail on that domain. IF you have Fred in location 1 and Mary needs to send mail to him, you will need to have the same type of forward setup in server2. This way, if Mary sends to Fred, Mary's local post office (server2) has an account for Fred, but IT has the same type of forward only backwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Now you will have full 2 way internal email and external access. Like Jean-Paul said, try it. I think once you see it work, you'll understand. _____ From: Gabriel Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server does that means that in Site B server, I will alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? if site b is server2.abc.com, how the users going to accept those emails? using [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry, i'm still trying to understand. Thanks very much ----- Original Message ---- From: Phil Leinhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 3, 2007 10:47:53 PM Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server As far as the world is concerned, marys address WILL be [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ONLY person who will know the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address will be YOU. In this case, the server2 part is NOT a domain, it's the server name. _____ From: Gabriel Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server Hi, This is not what I'm intending to do :( I would like to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Site B server. Not from [EMAIL PROTECTED] forward to Site B server [EMAIL PROTECTED] Help...!! ----- Original Message ---- From: Phil Leinhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 3, 2007 11:50:05 AM Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server If the user is in location 2 then you set a forward on the account in location 1 for their account like you would forward to hotmail or yahoo but add the host name to the front of the domain. And example: Their email address to the world would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] si I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It enters the server for that MX record which is server1. She has an account there but it's not her's. She picks up from server2. So her account on server1 has a forward set to forward all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your dns is setup correctly with server2 address, then this "Should" work. _____ From: Gabriel Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 8:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server hi, i'm not sure how can I configure this to get tis works... any clues? DNS? SMTP Route ? ----- Original Message ---- From: Helmut Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 3, 2007 1:38:42 AM Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server you do not need to. just forward it to user at host.domain.com. it SHOULD work, but until you try... ;) _____ From: Gabriel Lai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 6:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server but problem is, both site A and site B are the same domain name: abc.com.my how to configure the DNS so that it understands Site A or Site B? ----- Original Message ---- From: Jean-Paul van de Plasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2007 5:03:15 PM Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server They don't have to do that.. If you just forward their email to siteb.domain all else can stay the same JP ----- Original Message ----- From: Gabriel <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lai To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server Hi Guys, Thanks for the input. I knew that subdomain/alias domains can do this job, but asking the users change the email addresses to subdomain might be a critical mass. I think copy the certain folders to Site B server would be much more effective, but I worry that the emails might be too large, and might hang the VPN tunneling... anyone have done this before?? Thanks ----- Original Message ---- From: Phil Leinhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:43:13 AM Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server I never even though about using the hostname in the forward address. That's exactly what I wanted. I'm not sure if Merak will do hostname (easy to test) but it certainly will do alias domains. Thanks LOADS!!! Gabriel, does this help you? I think I have enough info to be able to get you on the right direction. Phil -----Original message----- From: "Helmut Fritz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:21:22 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary Serverto Secondary Server > Yes - at least in qmailadmin when you check the forward to box it has the > option of keeping a copy locally...which you don't have to do. So it could > come into the qmail server and be forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You > would have to specify the host's fqdn since mx records point to qmail. I am > NOT sure if merak would accept it with the fqdn of the host though. I don't > think qmail will, but someone else with more knowledge could respond to that > point. It might be just as simple as creating an alias domain (you can in > qmail) of merak.domain1.com aliases to domain1.com on merak. Hope that > makes sense...and helps. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Leinhauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary > Serverto Secondary Server > > That last got sent too early.... > > I'm actually looking for a similar solution. I want to make a slow > migration from my current post office software. > > Both of my servers are in same location. Let me explain what I want to do > and maybe that will help Gabriel too. > > I have Qmail on one machine and Merak on the other. I have about 40 domains > in Merak. > - If I added domain1.com to Qmail and it already had it with users in Merak. > I want to duplicate the users in Qmail and I'll set the MX to send into > Qmail. > > - On a user by user basis I want to move the users storage into Qmail to > make it as transparent to them as possible. So currently say I have 4 users > all in Merak for domain1.com. I want to have the same 4 users in Qmail but > when mail comes in, forward the specific accounts to another host as the > accounts move. > > I'm envisioning this in the middle of the process: > Accounts in Qmail Accounts in Merak > Mary Mary > Forward to Merak > Joe Joe > Stay in Qmail > Fred Fred Stay > in Qmail > Jane Jane > Forward to Merak > > > Isn't there a setting somewhere in the account properties to forward (not > copy) an account to another host and NOT store it locally? > > I'm thinking I saw the somewhere but I can't recall now. I know I can > forward the entire domain. This is why I asked a while back what the order > of operations is in Qmail. If it processes smtproutes before local accounts > or after. > > Phil > > > > -----Original message----- > From: Gabriel Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:35:40 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary > Serverto Secondary Server > > > yes, that's right.... else it will transfer very very huge emails to > another host. daily of emails is around 2GB... > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Phil Leinhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:14:27 AM > > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary > > Serverto Secondary Server > > > > > > Isn't there a way to have specific users emails forwarded to another host > directly? This would avoid any lag in the folder sync process. > > > > > > -----Original message----- > > From: Jake Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:17:45 -0400 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] automtically forward emails from Primary > > Serverto Secondary Server > > > > > Gabriel Lai wrote: > > > > hello... any reply for the below?? i dun have any clue :( is > > > > copying certain user's Maildir/new/* to the Site B server a good idea? > > > > > > Just jumping in, haven't read the whole thread - yes, that is okay. > > > You can sync any of the Maildir files, just don't try the queue files. > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > ______________ > > Need a vacation? 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