[Kolab-devel] Kolab2 Distribution lists using alias_maps instead of virtual_maps

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:48, Stephan Buys wrote:
> Surely Steffen is on this list?

Sure, he is.
But sometimes important messsages get overlooked (at least
this happens to me.) Then it is okay to ping me by personal email.

> We have stumbled across another "fun" problem.
> a) Where best to expand the distribution lists
> b) How to define the LDAP logic so that only recipients get expanded and
> the rest of the distribution list gets expanded on a "bridgehead" server.
>
> The problem is basically as follows:
>
> A user sends a 2Mb email to a distribution list with 300 recipients of
> which only 100 users are on the local server. The net effect is that 200 *
> 2Mb messages get sent across a WAN link of some sort.
> The ideal situation would be to deliver the local messages as usual then to
> send one message to a central server/gateway server to intelligently expand
> the distribution list on the correct server.
>
> Still rolling this problem over in my mind, any thoughts or suggestions
> from anyone else?

This also looks like an improvement to me.
Worth investigating, but first we need to iron the bugs out.
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