Question about Kolab Master-/Slave-configuration

[Volker Stoppe]

Thanks a lot for the answer! This informations was exactly that I was  
looking for. :-)

Greetinx

Volker



On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:48:04 +0200, Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Volker Stoppe <grenzlaeufer at gmx.net>  
>> wrote:
>>  > Hallo!
>>  >
>>  >  I have a question regarding the use of Kolab in a
>>  >  master-/slave-environment.
>>  >
>>  >  Situation:
>>  >  It would be interesting to use different Kolab-servers
>>  >  (master-/slave-configuration) for different locations, with the same
>>  >  mail-domain. If I register a slave in the mx-record of my  
>> mail-domain and
>>  >  a mail for a user on a slave-server reaches my mail domain:
>>  >  how is the mail delegated to the slave server? Does the master take  
>> the
>>  >  mail and forwards it to the slave, or is a another mechanism? The
>>  >  mx-domain shouldn´t know where to deliver a certain mail to a  
>> special
>>  >  server.
>>
>>  The trick is done by  postfix in  /kolab/etc/postfix/ldaptransport.cf
>>  Any kolab server in the group receiving an email will try
>>  to 'transport' it to the good server using the transport attribute in
>>  the  ldap database.
>
> Then you could assign a MX pointer to each of your server, but
> you could also assign only one of them.


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