Re: [exim] Re: Re: exim and multiple Mailbox-Server

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Michelle Konzack
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: Re: exim and multiple Mailbox-Server
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>
> If I understand this right, than all traffic is routed VIA this proxy.
> Right ?
>
> Which mean, if the proxy is located in e.g. Morocco and there is a
> local network in France ($USER + Mailbox-Server) the request and
> the traffic goes via the proxy in Morocco?
>
> It is not a simpel redirect/hint where the Mailbox-Server is to find?
>
> If this is right, it will be better for the Clients (and my Setup)
> if the clints connect directly to there Mailbox-Server. Right?


You can have multiple proxies. If you have users all over the place then
you can arrange that the proxies and message stores that they usually use
are close to where they usually connect, e.g. by giving them geographical
names, such as imap.fr.example.com or imap.ma.example.com.

Another way of doing this kind of scaling, which avoids the need for a
proxy, is to get users to configure their software to connect to
username.imap.example.com, so you have a DNS entry per user which you can
set up to point to the right back-end server.

Tony.
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