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Old 28th November 2008
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Hi folks,


Host - Debian Etch Workstation
Guest01 - mail server for routing
Guest02 - mail server, hostname01. localIP01, domain01
Guest03 - mail server, hostname02, localIP02, domain02
Guest04 - mail server, hostname03, localIP02, domain03
etc.

all mail servers running postfix as MTA on Debian Etch.

single (one) external IP with all ports forwarded to Guest01 except port 53 which is forwarded to the DNS server, also running on a guest of the Xen box.


Guest01 routes all incoming mails according to their domains to respective mail servers. All outgoing mails are sent via the routing mail server, Guest01, to Internet.


The system is working nicely on Intranet. Mail client, Evolution, on workstations connected to local network, the Intranet, can send/receive mails on the mail servers. Server settings on mail client work on either local IP or on hostname.


My question is if the workstation is on remote site, not on local network. What will be the server settings on the mail client. If on external IP how can the remote mail client find the mail server which it needs to connect. Please shed me some light. TIA


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For sending mail via SMTP, the remote clients just use the external (public) address of the main mail routing server (guest01).

For receiving mail, you will need to either:

* configure a load-balancer/proxy server in Guest01 that will proxy the connections to Guest02, Guest03, etc, based on the username. How you do this depends on which IMAP/POP server you are using (Cyrus IMAP uses MURDER, Zimbra uses a custom proxy, not sure what Courier or Dovecot use).

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* you will have to tell each user which server their mail account resides on, and they will have to configure their mail clients accordingly.
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You could use perdition pop3/imap proxy or nginx and it's pop3/imap proxy module. You have to write your own authentication system when using nginx.
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You could use perdition pop3/imap proxy or nginx and it's pop3/imap proxy module. You have to write your own authentication system when using nginx.
Hi deemon,


Thanks for your advice. I found follows to start;

Perdition: Mail Retrieval Proxy
http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/

Nginx English Wiki
http://wiki.codemongers.com/Main


Hoping that I'm not heading the wrong direction. Which of them will be easier to install and config? Thanks.


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For sending mail via SMTP, the remote clients just use the external (public) address of the main mail routing server (guest01).

For receiving mail, you will need to either:

* configure a load-balancer/proxy server in Guest01 that will proxy the connections to Guest02, Guest03, etc, based on the username. How you do this depends on which IMAP/POP server you are using (Cyrus IMAP uses MURDER, Zimbra uses a custom proxy, not sure what Courier or Dovecot use).

Or,

* you will have to tell each user which server their mail account resides on, and they will have to configure their mail clients accordingly.
Hi phoenix,


Thanks for your advice.


Based on what you suggest I found following interest links;

IndiMail
http://indimail.sourceforge.net/
IndiMail 1.0
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Interne...IndiMail.shtml
INTRODUCTION
IndiMail is a mailing solution built using following packages

MySQL Proxy project
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy

POUND - REVERSE-PROXY AND LOAD-BALANCER
http://www.apsis.ch/pound/


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