Re: Some mail system problem.

inTEXT Communications (list@intextonline.com)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 03:05:10 -0700 (PDT)


Get rid of the isdn line, and do your whole show using pppd through a
normal dialup phone line ( yes 56 K modem )

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Chan Foo Bang wrote:

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> I need your expertise and suggestion on this matter...
>
> Currently, our system is using a 64K ISDN dial-up. As you all know, ISDN
> dail-up is not UP all the time and it only active when there is people
> surfing or activiti in the internal network. We also have a fix ip address.
> We are using linux firewall and have a mail server in our local network
> (behind the firewall). Our parent company have a 64K lease line. So since
> we can't host our internet mail server in our organisation( we are using
> ISDN dial-up), so we make use of our parent company lease line to host our
> mail server. We register our domain name and whatever mail for this domain,
> it will send to the mail server that we set up and located in our parent
> company. So when a user want to read a mail, they need to connect to the
> mail server in the parent company to retrieve mail. Sometime it is very
> uncovenience and sometime the downloading mail from this mail server to the
> user workstation is very very slow. So what you guy will suggest to solve
> this problem?
>
> The setup is like this:-
>
>
> parent company
> our company
> with 64K lease line with ISDN dial-up with fix IP
> line 24Hours UP
> line will only UP during working hours
> geografically different
> places
> parent.com.my
> sister.com.my
>
> |--------------------|
> |-----------------|
> | | internet
> | |
> | | -- --- --- -- --
> - - - -- - -- - - | |
> |------------------- |
> |-----------------|
>
> 1 Linux mail server
> 1 Linux mail server
> for inernal staff and internet
> currently only for internal
> 1 DNS server
> No DNS server
>
> (the primary domain is point to ip of parent company)
>
>
>
>
> It is POSSIBLE to set such a way that whatever there is a mail to our
> company (user@sister.com.my) that go to the parent company, it will foward
> the mail to our company mail server? (since we have our own internel mail
> server) and whatever mail to user@parent.com.my remain in the parent mail
> server. If it can be done, HOW? And another thing is that how the mail
> going to foward the mail to the sister company during at night (the line is
> not UP) if there is a mail to one of the user in sister.com.my?
>
> Thank your for the advice in advance.
>
> FB
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