Leopard Mail server, dual delivery with Google Docs
My advance apologies if this topic has been discussed before:
I work in education and would like to start using google docs concurrently wtih the mail services we already use (a semi-customized version of the standard Leopard Server mail packages).
As I understand it, this project has 3 different pieces.
1. DNS - MX records need to be setup so that Mail is delivered to both my local servers and to the google servers.
2. Import/Export of Existing OD users, groups and passwords (I've got about 500 users and 80 or so groups.) This seems to be the hard part. I've looked at the documentation posted on Google's site, but everything is bent to help AD users.
3. ODM user password sync once initial import is done. We're trying to move to a place where we're using a single sign on, and we've gotten it down to 2 working password servers. This is confusing for many of our users and I'd like to avoid adding a third password for them.
I realize this topic covers DNS, OD and Mail but I'm hoping to get advice from some of you out there who may have either already done this or tried and decided to do things another way.
I plan to cross post to the Google Docs forums and see if anyone there has attempted what I'm trying to do.
Thanks in Advance,
David Peterson
Systems Administrator
Sunnyside School District
Sunnyside, WA
I work in education and would like to start using google docs concurrently wtih the mail services we already use (a semi-customized version of the standard Leopard Server mail packages).
As I understand it, this project has 3 different pieces.
1. DNS - MX records need to be setup so that Mail is delivered to both my local servers and to the google servers.
2. Import/Export of Existing OD users, groups and passwords (I've got about 500 users and 80 or so groups.) This seems to be the hard part. I've looked at the documentation posted on Google's site, but everything is bent to help AD users.
3. ODM user password sync once initial import is done. We're trying to move to a place where we're using a single sign on, and we've gotten it down to 2 working password servers. This is confusing for many of our users and I'd like to avoid adding a third password for them.
I realize this topic covers DNS, OD and Mail but I'm hoping to get advice from some of you out there who may have either already done this or tried and decided to do things another way.
I plan to cross post to the Google Docs forums and see if anyone there has attempted what I'm trying to do.
Thanks in Advance,
David Peterson
Systems Administrator
Sunnyside School District
Sunnyside, WA
MacPro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
