[PLUG] Mail Network Options

[Keith Nasman]

> On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 14:21, Keith Nasman wrote:
>> A client of mine is putting in another office location and I am to put
>> in a server there. Right now they only have one office (we'll call it
>> office1) with a fixed IP and their mail and website are on the
>> server(server1) there. I will be installing server2 in office2 on it's
>> own fixed-IP DSL line. I'm exploring the different options for
>> delivering mail from server1 to server2.
> ...
>> This is my first dealing with multiple physical locations under the
>> same domain so I'd like to get more input on how this is normally done
>> and whether there are other (probably obvious) options out there that
>> I need to look at.
>
> It may be a bit more than you're prepared to do, but the best solution
> is to set up an LDAP directory which contains the mailbox routing
> information at one site and replicate it to the other site.  You put in
> MXs for both servers and let the servers figure out where to deliver it
> locally.
>
> You could do a poor-man's version of this with a virtual or canonical
> maps and rsync or scp the configuration between the servers.
>
> Wil

Right on both counts, that would be a much better solution and it is more
than I'm wanting to do in this situation :-)

Thanks,
Keith