Questions about scalix

[kool_kid]

okay thanks

[kool_kid]

can we use OL 11.3 connector for 11.2 scalix server ?

[Valerion]

In the past it has always been recommended to use a older connector against a newer server, not the other way around. May or may not cause issues, but I know Scalix doesn't actually test this configuration.

Also, the 11.3.0 connector will be under the Scalix 11.3.0 server license. If you intend to upgrade the server, then I can't see a legal question. If you intend to run the 11.3.0 connector against a 11.2.0 server because of the increased number of Enterprise users, then it will not be allowed.

I suggest you send this to Scalix themselves, though, as they are the authority on this.

[kool_kid]

okay i will do that.

I have two big questions now,

1 >> If i have to implement 2 servers (say one in US and other in UK) can i have these two servers on same domain? Is there such a feature available in MS Exchange? (if you know about this)

2 >> What is better to use ISP IP for Scalix or implement the scalix in network and redirect the router ports to this local ip? This ins regard with securtiy and feasibility to implement. Users should be able to send and receive mails to/from domains like gmail, yahoo etc. I know about MX records to directed to the ISP IP.

[kanderson]

Two (or more) servers can easily share a single domain. You'll need an Enterprise Edition license for multi server.

Typically I build a server with an Internal IP and forward through the firewall if necessary.

Kev.

[kool_kid]

Does that mean if i want to have a server in uk having the data of only UK users to be in there and another server to be in US wherein there will be only US users data, US server will not have UK users data and vice-versa is this possible with multi server?

[kanderson]

Having 2 "mirrored" servers is more difficult. I have no personal experience with it, however I know that it is done for/by some clients. As I understand it, you needs lots of bandwidth between the two sites.

Kev.

[kool_kid]

you mean to say that is possible but difficult right?

okay basically we have a Domain registered and people are using it default mail application, now we have 2 offices in 2 different countries( Uk, US), we want to setup scalix such that all the US users mail account data should be in US server itself and it should'nt be available in UK server and in UK server should have only Uk users data, no US user data in UK server.
All the users(UK , US) should send/receive emails through the registered domain only, we dont want to register second domain.
Lastly when any US user send/receive mail from another US user then the scalix server should make use of the US server and not the UK server, same goes for the UK users.

This is possible?

let me know if you need anymore explanation.

[florian]

This is not even difficult but rather a standard setup. A quite well-known group of hotels does that with Scalix with more than 100 servers.

The only thing is that this is a true Scalix multi-server setup, so you'll need the Enterprise Edition product to do that.

Florian.

[kool_kid]

Okay one more question currently we are making use of Smart Mail service for our Domain and we want to switch to Scalix server, so firstly can we have smartmail server unremoved (meaning users should be able to access this mail server) and we should have Scalix implement on same domain, is this possible?

Can anybody tell me of a way to import smart mail servers email accounts to scalix mail accounts using either pop3 or anything like that.

[florian]

i don't know this smart thing. sharing a domain between servers of different technologies usually means creating per-user forwards and temporary "helper" domain names to accomplish this, i.e. on the scalix side additional addresses like @scalix.company.com, to which the mail is forwarded.

migraiton from such service is best accomplished using imapcopy or imapsync. if pop is the only way, fetchmail should be able to help. (all open source/public domain tools)

Florian.

[kool_kid]

i don't know this smart thing. sharing a domain between servers of different technologies usually means creating per-user forwards and temporary "helper" domain names to accomplish this, i.e. on the scalix side additional addresses like @scalix.company.com, to which the mail is forwarded.

can you tell me more about this please.

[florian]

well... no... because it's really product specific to the server on the other side. if you need someone to work this out for you, we or our partners can offer you professional services to do that...... i think this goes beyond what we can offer on this forum.

Florian.

[kool_kid]

Do we have this feature in scalix

>> Limiting the user account in scalix, like a particular user should not be able to send mail to domains like gmail etc while the other users on the same domain should be able to send mail to gmail etc.

>> Limiting the user account, say if i want a particular user to be able to send mail to all the users except one, is this possible?

[florian]

yes, but setup for features like this is pretty advanced and requires complex filtering rules to be created.

see description of service router rules in the documentaiton for details.

Florian.