On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Andrew Staples wrote:
A global company (the group) is headquartered in Scandinavia. 25+ companies comprise the group around the world, each company with its own mailserver and mailserver software. The group encourages the companies to act in a decentralized manner, except in some things...the group wants to consolidate email addresses across the group, i.e.. Xx.yy@groupname.com, regardless of where the mail account lives, yet still give local control over the email server.
You need a table of name -> location mappings which each mail server can use to route email. You could distribute the table using whatever technology you like, e.g. LDAP. Google for Schlumberger Exim LDAP for a complicated example, though it can be done much more simply. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ BISCAY: WEST 5 OR 6 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 OR 4. SHOWERS AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD.