Re: [LI] Intelligent mail distribution (ksort of)

["SHRIDHAR N. DAITHANKAR" <shridhar.daithankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Hi
   
  Try sendmail documentation. I think solution to your problem lies
in /etc/aliases and /etc/sendmail.cf.

 It should not be very difficult to achieve what you want.

 Bye
  Shridhar

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, VaibhaV Sharma wrote:

> Hiya ppl,
> I have a problem with a mail distribution system in an office. The setup is
> as follows.
> 
> A linux box with an ISDN line to the Internet. A pop3 server of our company
> on the Internet in US from which we pull down the mails of our employees who
> are in our office.
> 
> The problem is that the address format of the mails in the WHOLE COMPANY is
> user1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx user2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  (as usual). Now there are a
> couple of other offices in the other places.
> 
> What we want is that the linux box, when not connected to the net, should
> immediately send the mails of the people who are in our office i.e.
> user1@ourcompany OR user2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx but if a user is not present on our
> local machine the mail should be queued and then later sent through the
> Internet to our US server so that it is downloaded by the respective user3.
> 
> The mail queueing part is easy to do with sendmail. But how do I tell
> sendmail that if the user is NOT found on the local server the mail has to
> queued and then sent through the Internet??
> 
>  Or would this be possible with some other MTA other than Sendmail.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> VaibhaV Sharma
> Indian Linux Users Group Indore Chapter
> -------------------------------------

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