Re: Localized mail servers, global scope

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:23:22 BST, Tony Finch said:

> 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.

That's all fine and good once the mail gets into his e-mail infrastructure.

The problem he's going to hit is that he wants *my* mail server to send mail to
'fred () example com' to get routed to the MX in San Fran where Fred is, and *my*
mail server to send mail 'johann () example com' to get routed to the MX in Geneva
where Johann is, and avoid having a central MX that then does routing.

And basically, he's screwed, because the MX lookup is only based on the RHS
of the target address.  AT *best* he can deploy a @NN.example.com and have
different MX entries for US.example.com and FR.example.com and so on (but he
already said that's a suboptimal).

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