Hi All,

I need to setup an email server for my other branch. currently they are accessing their emails directly from the server at the head office. i need to limit that traffic whereby each user is querying the email server to pop emails.

I need a server on the branch that will from time to time collect messages from the main server at the head office and distributes to the clients on that branch.

The domain will sill be the same

How best can i achieve this? what should i do on the "new" server that i need to setup?

Thank you very much in advance

BJ

Which email server program are you using currently?

with postfix you could use virtual _maps, so mail is relayed as it is received to the proper server for final delivery..

so if your mail servers were
mailhub.yourcompany.com
branch1.yourcompany.com

you would setup the /etc/postfix/virtual map as follows
branchuser@yourcompany.com branchuser@branch1.yourcompany.com

so postfix on your pimary MX server mailhub, would know that the message needs to be forwarded to the other server (branch1) for delivery..

but as arckane points out, without knowing what MTA (postfix, exim, qmail, sendmail, MS Exchange, other) you are running, and knowing how it's setup (is it using a SQL backend ? is it using LDAP ? , etc.. ) it's difficult to offer a proper solution.

More information would be a good thing.
With Qmail you can do a similar mapping to deliver the messages to the proper server or even setup fetchmail to periodically grab emails from the main server and deliver them to the local (branch) server to minimize the number of connections made to the main server.

Thanks for the replies so far guys. I'm using sendmail as my MTA

May be fetchmail can do the same for you as well. Look into it.