well, i have no knowledge to configure sendmail or qmail mail server in linux...
well our office opened another branch, we need a place mail server on new branch.
can you tell me how to configure sendmail or qmail which extended our existing mail server..
but mail database & user information will be existed in main office...New mail server will route
the message from new branch to existing mail server....
pls anybody help me.... its urgent for me...
i will be very grateful to u...

What is your main office setup? If your running qmail at the main off check out Mini-Qmail. Mini-Qmail's purpose is to relay mail to a central server via QMQP. It will relay to any QMQP server, but the only QMQP server I have ever delt with myself is the qmail-qmqpd server from the main Qmail MTA package.

Another good place to look for qmail information is Life With Qmail or the Qmail reference site.

As far as sendmail goes... I find the O'Reilly Sendmail Book to be a good reference.

For specific configuration help your going to have to tell me what is running on the main server machine and what you hope to run on the satellite server machine specifically. Where the maile is comming from, how you want people to be able to access it, and where they are accessing it from. Do you really just need an SMTP server for the new office to send e-mail from that office outward?

There might be better methods like using Cyrus SASL or SMTP-AUTH and IMAP-SSL for accessing e-mail from the main office ot the satellite office.

my main office is running with M-daemon mail server and remote location i need to setup qmail.

In remote mail server(qmail) contain local mail database and needs to download the mails from the main branch to their user accounts...

can we configure the remote mail server with smtp and pop3 which look to our main office mail server.. so that sending message will route through smtp of main mail server..


Please anybody help me in configuration, i will be very grate full.

Have you taken a look at fetchmail?

http://qmailrocks.org + fetchmail will solve your problem

actually myself implemented.

Case study:

MAil comes to user@mainbranch.com
At remote location qmail server running and it will fetch mails from @mainbranch and forward to local user accounts of @remote location

Pls any body give detail steps to configure the qmail and fetchmail, because iam unaware of this things..... i will be very grate ful if provided this configuration.

HI,

i Hope i can , if your case is similar like me

ok , need more details about setup , you can contimue here or
mail to ravi@hyd.4bigravi.com

like your office domainname and your branch domain name
etc

well iam confused, whether i need to configure dns again in remote mail server or not. because already in main server the dns configured....pls give me reply so on.