Re: Distributed mail servers

I know in POSTFIX you can use the canonical table to "route" incoming
mail to a different server , but the table is maintained manually.
Having looked after Exchange boxes in the past I agree the mail box
migration is cool feature (in a black box kinda way) . But since its
based in Active Directory I am sure there is a exploit waiting to happen.

Steven Kurylo wrote:

> Maybe I'm not using the right search terms, but I can't find any
> information about distributed mail servers.
>
> Exchange/AD does this well - when an email comes in it checks which
> server the user's account is on and sends the message there. That way
> you have one incoming front end server, but several mail stores based
> on geography. Then I don't have to get my mail from a server across
> the country.
>
> I think I've thought of a fairly straight forward way to make
> exim+LDAP do this, but I would have though information would already
> be out there.
>
> Anyone have any information?
>
> Thanks.
Received on Wed Jan 3 17:26:22 2007