[imp] Question about multi servers

[Nuno Silva]

Hi,
you could instruct your users to login with their email addresses
user@domain1.com and then set the imap server to domain1.com's imap 
server address :)

regards,
Nuno Silva

Kris von Mach wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has attempted to create multi server 
> installation of IMP, running Qmail+Vpopmail+Mysql+Courier-imap or 
> something similar.
> 
> I would like to setup something similar to what is explained in 
> http://www.horde.org/papers/Scalable_webmail_HOWTO.php except that I am 
> not running LDAP.
> 
> My goal is to go to one url, www.mycompany.com from where virtual users, 
> with virtual domain names, can get their email. For example, 
> joe@domain1.com would live on server1, joe@domain2.com would live on 
> server2. The idea is that all of this would be transparent to the users. 
> And regardless on what server their domain/user lives on, they can get 
> their email from the same one location, www.mycompany.com. I would also 
> expect to have around 200 domains per server.
> 
> The only way I could think of making this work across multiple servers 
> is if every user goes to for example mail.domain1.com to receive email 
> for domain1.com, and mail.domain2.com to receive mail for domain2.com Or 
> to have a drop down menu with 20 different imap servers... I know that 
> imp has a preference option that would remember what imap server the 
> user picked, but that wouldn't be "transparent", and would mean extra 
> work for the end-users.
> 
> Any pointers, tips, examples, would be greatly appreciated :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> __
> Kris.