[81643] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Localized mail servers, global scope
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Jun 22 12:23:56 2005
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:23:22 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Andrew Staples <andrews@ltinet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200506221558.j5MFwCGn031313@mail.anodizing.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Andrew Staples wrote:
>
> A global company (the group) is headquartered in Scandinavia. 25+ companies
> comprise the group around the world, each company with its own mailserver
> and mailserver software. The group encourages the companies to act in a
> decentralized manner, except in some things...the group wants to consolidate
> email addresses across the group, i.e.. Xx.yy@groupname.com, regardless of
> where the mail account lives, yet still give local control over the email
> server.
You need a table of name -> location mappings which each mail server can
use to route email. You could distribute the table using whatever
technology you like, e.g. LDAP. Google for Schlumberger Exim LDAP for a
complicated example, though it can be done much more simply.
Tony.
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