two oss zimbra servers on single domain

[rslrdx]

Hi

I just had an idea and hope it might work...

I have an OSS server running that does block some attachments, but some user need to get any type of attachments.

What i thought was, if i could have two different servers, hosting the same domain, with attachment filtering in one and no filtering at all on the other, is there any way to accomplish this?

[rslrdx]

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Anyone?

[mek1]

Here's basically what I did in a testing environment utilizing two virtual servers.

You could do a split domain with the servers. On the primary, allow all attachments. Setup the secondary server does attachment blocking. Create the domain company.com on both servers. Lets say you want user1@company.com to get attachments and user9@company.com to have attachment blocking.

On the primary server;

zmprov cd company.com
zmprov ca user1@company.com P4ssW0rdhere
zmprov ca user9@company.com P4ssW0rdhere2
zmprov ma user9@company.com zimbraMailTransport smtp:secondary.company.com:25

We just SSH'd into the Primary and created both users, except user9's mailbox relaying to Secondary.

Now create the user on Secondary;

zmprov cd company.com
zmprov ca user9@company.com P4ssW0rdhere2

We also need a catch-all so user9 can email back user1;

md company.com zimbraMailCatchAllAddress @company.com
md company.com zimbraMailCatchAllForwardingAddress @company.com
md company.com zimbraMailTransport smtp:primary.company.com

On the secondary server Global settings > Attachments, block .zip attachments for example.

Now incoming mail to user9@company.com will hit the primary which allows attachments and relay it to secondary which blocks it. There's DNS work to be done here to make this functional as well.

[rslrdx]

So, here is what i have in mind about this. (yes, still working on it)

I got a single server up and running, to do this split, the easiest way i can think of is to install another server on a cheaper box, migrate all the users to it, then setup the domain again, this time split on the original server +1 other server, migrate the users to this new setup.

makes sense?

@ Mek1

Can you comment more on the dns part? is it anything different from what the wiki says about splitdomains?

TIA
Rodrigo

[rslrdx]

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anyone?