topic Mail Routing in Operating System - Linux

Mail Routing

U.SivaKumar_2 — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 06:06:27 GMT

Hi ,

Assume I have two servers A and B hosting email service with sendmail for same domain xyz.com. I have 50 users in server A and 50 users in Server B. All users will have sender address in this format - user_name@xyz.com

user in server A should able to send mail to other users in server A and also server B. How to do mail routing without using LDAP ?.

regards,

U.SivaKumar.

Re: Mail Routing

James Specht — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:03:38 GMT

We have a similiar setup here. I have 12 servers holding my users actual email accounts. All users are known as user_name@abc.edu. What I have done is in our primary mail server for the domain I have an alias file that points all individuals to the correct server. So jim@abc.edu is aliased to jim@serverA.abc.edu and joe@abc.edu is aliased to joen@serverB.abc.edu. This alias file is then cloned to all the other email servers so everyone is in sync and can deliver their own mail internally.

--Jim

Re: Mail Routing

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:44:49 GMT

/etc/aliases

On all the systems

user_name@xyz.com: user_name@servername.xyz.com

The file is tab delimited.

That change will start working as soon as you implement it, though its always a good idea to bounce the sendmail daaemon with a service sendmail restart

I like James's idea. I may modify it to provide failover mail queing between my three domain servers.

SEP

Re: Mail Routing

Stuart Browne — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:32:06 GMT

If you have some predictable pattern to the users on the given systems, you could use the 'virtual user table' to redirect them easier (for groupings) than the aliases file.