At 5:14 PM -0400 10/1/01, Jeff Porten imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >Not a SIMS question, as this is for a project that I'm hosting elsewhere. I >want to have two different companies, with two different servers, host mail >for companyname.com. Company 1 will have a list of 10 addresses, company 2 >may have hundreds, no duplication. I know I can set up multiple MX records >in DNS, but what I don't understand is how the servers hand off mail to each >other when incoming mail is to an account that's on the other one. > >I have to assume that this problem has been solved by companies with massive >mailbox requirements. What's the solution?
Generally, something other than SIMS. For example, sendmail has a neat tweak known as the 'luser relay' which lets you have it pass along any mail for users who look local but don't actually exist to another machine. You can also mimic this with nearly any MTA by having the individual machines know the right place to deliver to each user. SIMS can do that just fine, although it will not be pretty. However, you may want to think long and hard about this if it is in fact 2 different companies. No matter how you set it up, one or both machines will handle mail that needs to end up at the other. The companies involved may well consider that a significant security problem, and quite justifiably so. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
