I have our main mailserver open externally for DWA access. But, we have users at other locations that need to see their mailbox via a browser.Problem is I don’t want to open an outside port for each mail server that’s needed to be seen externally.
I currently have my “dwa redirect” pointing to the mailserver option.
Can this one server be the “proxy” and serve-up (like a passthru) the mailbox for remote servers that don’t even have http running on them??
Subject: Can DWA redirect “proxy” for other servers??
There is no way to passthrough a Domino web server to access another web server. Why not simply replicate the needed mail files to your DWA server?
/Peter
Subject: Can I create a mashup/portal instead??
Is there a way to create a mashup/portal that would reside on this one server (that’s viewable via the outside) and could pull the users’ mailbox from any of my servers (not accessible from the outside)??That would save us from manually rep’ing a mailbox to this server everytime a user wants to access it externally.
Subject: RE: Can I create a mashup/portal instead??
I would imagine that you could create a redirect page with a WebQueryOpen agent that would check if the users mail file was present on the current server, and if not, initiate a replication creation from the users home mail server. The problem is that it would take time for it to complete, so the user wouldn’t be able to use it right away. The user might even have to wait another day before the replication was finished, depending on replication settings, and available bandwidth and so on.
I couldn’t give you any code to start with, but I think it’s possible. Using the NotesAdministrationProcess you could initiate the creation of the replica.
One thing to watch out for is the naming of mail files. Since the users are registered on different servers, there could be mail files with the same file name on different servers, being owned by different users. You wouldn’t want to use different file names on different servers, since you want to be able to use the mail file specified in the person document.
I’m sure there are other hoops you have to jump through to get this to work, but as I said, it should be doable.
HTH
/Peter