Re: How to setup a mailbox clone

2018-05-25 Thread Paul Richards
Thanks, I am running dovecot as well and did not realize it could do that! I will do it that way! I appreciate everyone else's help as well! Best Regards, Paul Richards Code Monkey/System Admin On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > You appear to describe a system that deliv

Re: How to setup a mailbox clone

2018-05-20 Thread @lbutlr
On 20 May 2018, at 09:23, Wietse Venema wrote: > That said, I think that the replicated message store would be the > better approach because the replication enforces consistency. This thread is starting to feel like one of those "I want to do X but I don’t want to do (Thing specifically designed

Re: How to setup a mailbox clone

2018-05-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Paul Richards: > Can I just use: > #in /etc/postfix/main.cf > virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/domain_copy.conf > > #in /etc/postfix/domain_copy.conf > @mydomain.edu @host1.mydomain.edu @host2.mydomain.edu This should not loop, because you are not sending @host1.mydomain.edu to @host2.mydom

Re: How to setup a mailbox clone

2018-05-19 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On May 18, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Paul Richards wrote: > > #in /etc/postfix/domain_copy.conf > @mydomain.edu @host1.mydomain.edu @host2.mydomain.edu This sort-of-works provided each host does not forward mail for @.mydomain.edu to the other, but breaks recipient validation if implemented as a wi

Re: How to setup a mailbox clone

2018-05-19 Thread Wietse Venema
You appear to describe a system that delivers mail to two independent message stores. The problem with that approach is that if a user reads or deletes a message on one message store, then their action will not change the state of the other message store. It is possible to do better than that. If

How to setup a mailbox clone

2018-05-18 Thread Paul Richards
I understand how a MX relay works and how to implement it in postfix, but what I am looking to do is create a clone of all the mailboxes on our system to another system. So is one server setup like a MX backup relay and then there is some switch or option that I don't know or do I just setup 'virtu