| Posted by JustinNoel, 04-02-2009, 11:34 AM | | Hello,
I've been looking around on how to do a remote mail server for cPanel.
I am talking about two separate dedicated servers. I want this first server to serve as the mail server of my second dedicated server.
Thank you.
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| Posted by eth00, 04-02-2009, 11:37 AM | | Nothing out of the box. You could setup a 2nd box to do email filtering which would help with the load but that is not serving all of the email.
not saying it is impossible, just nothing out of the box.
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| Posted by JustinNoel, 04-02-2009, 11:42 AM | | Just went to cpanel's forum. They are planning this functionaluty for cPanel version 12. No ETA though.
When you say filtering, how we do we this remote filtering? I am afraid that I might get users who will SPAM. Dedicated providers do squeez a lot of money when your users tend to be reported to be spamming in e-mail.
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| Posted by eth00, 04-02-2009, 11:43 AM | | Something like ASSP or mailfoundry that will filter and forward INCOMING email.
What I am suggesting won't help with outbound spam.
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| Posted by speckl, 04-02-2009, 11:50 AM | | I have been setting up Google Apps for my clients and it is amazing what a difference it has made for them and the server load. My main server was having to filter over 500 spam messages an hour. Not anymore
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| Posted by mindbend, 04-02-2009, 01:43 PM | | I have a theoretical response.
Give the mail box a host of mail., on the first box, setup an A record pointing mail. to the second box, then setup an MX record pointing mail over. Remove the domain from /etc/localdomains, add to /etc/remotedomains, setup an SPF reflecting MX, and ip4:.
Once this is done, the first machine will treat mail for that domain as being on the other machine, the MX will point mail delivery there.
Here is where I'm curious how cpanel will react as this is just a theoretical solution. Add the domain to the other machine and add a few mail boxes to see if they can send and receive. I am curious if cpanel will see that the domain does not belong to that box and bark at you when trying to deliver mail and send email.
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If the mail server is not going to be cpanel based and just exim based, exim only cares about what it is told, you can tell it anything you want. So if the second box is not cpanel based, this is entirely possible.
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Lemmi know if that works, I'm curious.
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| Posted by mindbend, 04-02-2009, 01:46 PM | | Google MX rocks my socks. My POS dedi can now live in webserver heaven and only process mysql / file retreval requests now that google manages my email and godaddy manages my DNS.
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