Question about Kolab Master-/Slave-configuration

[Richard Bos]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:39:15PM +0200, Volker Stoppe wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the answer! This informations was exactly that I was  
> looking for. :-)

Can you put it on the wiki?


> 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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