Re: [vchkpw] OFF-TOPIC: A good POP3/SMTP Proxy Server
Hi Tom and others. reviewing my previous discussions on this list over this same issue, I saw a guy that advised me to, instead of actually splitting the accounts through the mail servers, I should create a cluster using NFS where /var/vpopmail directory would be stored on the central server and exported to the NFS clients. My question is, would this be fast even over a slow link of 128kbps? Wouldn't it consume a lot of bandwidth every time a local user sends a big message for another user at the same location? I think that NFS won't prevent me from consuming the bandtwidth, so I still prefer to split the domain (it could be with the solution you told me) or by creating a POP3/SMTP proxy. Regards, bnegrao - Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] OFF-TOPIC: A good POP3/SMTP Proxy Server On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Bruno Negrao wrote: Instead, I want a POP3 proxy server integrated with SMTP, that could prevent the messages internal to Allentown to cross the internet link. I'd like the proxy server to keep the local messages right there in Allentown. Does someone know a product like that? There have been past conversations on the list about doing that with vpopmail on both ends. Here's the general gist: Location A has their POP mailboxes, and aliases to forward mail for users at location B to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Location B has their POP mailboxes, and aliases to forward mail for users at location A to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both servers have domain.com in their rcpthosts, virtualdomains and users/assign files. Location A has loca.domain.com as an alias domain, and Location B has locb.domain.com as an alias domain (to domain.com). Users configure their email client to pick up mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their email address in the From header. In your case, you'd keep New York as your MX 0, and it would forward mail to Allentown as needed. People at the Allentown office who sent mail to each other, would have their mail stay on their local (locb) server. Mail to New York and any other Internet location will be quickly queued on the locb server. You might even be able to configure traffic priority on your dialup link to throttle smtp traffic over the dialup link to give preference to http (and other) traffic. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com
Re: [vchkpw] OFF-TOPIC: A good POP3/SMTP Proxy Server
Hi all, This is the idea of a new kind of POP3/smtp proxy server that would prevent domain splitting. The POP3/SMTP proxy should: - learn which accounts are local, create their Maildirs automatically, deliver the local messages locally, and send any mail for the accounts not local to the MX0 mail server for that domain. - fetch the messages periodically from the central server, without waiting the local users to request them. The local users would always retrieve the messages already downloaded by the proxy server. - optionally, the proxy server could forward all external messages (destined for other domains) to the central server, giving it the chance to apply message policies, such as eMPF. Or the proxy server could fetch the policies from the central server and apply them by itself. Do you think this could work? Regards, bruno. - Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] OFF-TOPIC: A good POP3/SMTP Proxy Server On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Bruno Negrao wrote: Instead, I want a POP3 proxy server integrated with SMTP, that could prevent the messages internal to Allentown to cross the internet link. I'd like the proxy server to keep the local messages right there in Allentown. Does someone know a product like that? There have been past conversations on the list about doing that with vpopmail on both ends. Here's the general gist: Location A has their POP mailboxes, and aliases to forward mail for users at location B to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Location B has their POP mailboxes, and aliases to forward mail for users at location A to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both servers have domain.com in their rcpthosts, virtualdomains and users/assign files. Location A has loca.domain.com as an alias domain, and Location B has locb.domain.com as an alias domain (to domain.com). Users configure their email client to pick up mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their email address in the From header. In your case, you'd keep New York as your MX 0, and it would forward mail to Allentown as needed. People at the Allentown office who sent mail to each other, would have their mail stay on their local (locb) server. Mail to New York and any other Internet location will be quickly queued on the locb server. You might even be able to configure traffic priority on your dialup link to throttle smtp traffic over the dialup link to give preference to http (and other) traffic. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com
Re: [vchkpw] OFF-TOPIC: A good POP3/SMTP Proxy Server
On Oct 25, 2005, at 5:55 AM, Bruno Negrao wrote: Instead, I want a POP3 proxy server integrated with SMTP, that could prevent the messages internal to Allentown to cross the internet link. I'd like the proxy server to keep the local messages right there in Allentown. Does someone know a product like that? There have been past conversations on the list about doing that with vpopmail on both ends. Here's the general gist: Location A has their POP mailboxes, and aliases to forward mail for users at location B to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Location B has their POP mailboxes, and aliases to forward mail for users at location A to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both servers have domain.com in their rcpthosts, virtualdomains and users/assign files. Location A has loca.domain.com as an alias domain, and Location B has locb.domain.com as an alias domain (to domain.com). Users configure their email client to pick up mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as their email address in the From header. In your case, you'd keep New York as your MX 0, and it would forward mail to Allentown as needed. People at the Allentown office who sent mail to each other, would have their mail stay on their local (locb) server. Mail to New York and any other Internet location will be quickly queued on the locb server. You might even be able to configure traffic priority on your dialup link to throttle smtp traffic over the dialup link to give preference to http (and other) traffic. -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ You don't need a laptop to troubleshoot high-speed Internet: sniffter.com