one domain, multiple servers? 1

[remcovanuitert]

Hi,
Is it possible to have one domain and a bunch of servers with users? This maybe a stupid (and confusing) question; I looked at the documentation, but I can't seem to find a quick answer to this question.

I would like to create the following:
One server is connected to the internet. All mail coming from the internet is delivered to that server. That server distributes the mail among the other servers, located in different countries, so it is eventually delivered to the user's mailboxes on another server in our mail-domain.
This is what our Lotus Domino-setup looks like today.

Is this possible with IMail? If so, what terms should I look up in the documentation?

Thanks in advance,
Remco

 

[skotman]

Let me see if I have what you want to do correct. You have say 1000 users all with an e-mail address of user@yourdomain.com and you want to forward user1's e-mail to a server in LA while user2's e-mail goes to NY?
That correct?

Scott Heath

http://www.scottspad.com

AIM: orange7288

 

[skotman]

Ok, Just found this, I think this will work.:
quote from imail 8 manual located at:

http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/guide/imailug801/Chapter 2 config17.html#13412

Setting Up "Peer" IMail Servers

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IMail Server lets you set up "peer" servers to allow users for a specific domain to be spread across multiple physical computers. This can be used when the mail traffic on your IMail Server system becomes heavy enough to slow down mail processing. How much traffic your mail server can handle will depend on your computer's hardware configuration.

How Peering Works
Suppose you have two systems set up as peer servers: both systems have IMail Server installed and each server has a portion of the user database for a single domain. When mail comes in for a user in the domain (for example, user@ipswitch.net), the sending server does a DNS lookup and gets the host name and address of one of the two peer servers. The mail is sent to one of the peer servers. If the user is found on the peer server, the mail is delivered. If not, the peer server does an SMTP Verify to see if the user exists on the other server. If it finds the user, it forwards the mail.

Note: Do not select the Disable SMTP VRFY command (on the SMTP Security tab) when using peer servers. A peer server needs to use this command to verify a user that is on the other peer.

If either peer server is down, the other peer server will receive and hold mail for it until the first server comes back up.



Scott Heath

http://www.scottspad.com

AIM: orange7288

 

[remcovanuitert]

That's it!
Thanks a lot.

Remco