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Harden the new MX/SRS mail setup so LDAP isn't a SPOF

The new servers mx-dal-01 and srs-dal-01 make LDAP queries to fetch email forwards. This introduces LDAP as single point of failure for mail delivery. We should mitigate this. Options are:

  • add redundancy to LDAP by adding extra LDAP nodes (possibly read-only).
  • run LDAP proxy caches locally on the MX and SRS servers
  • generate static files based on LDAP data:
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