what if the NFS mounted machine is down?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Xander D Harkness" <xander@???>
To: "Mr OCP" <mr_ocp@???>
Cc: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Setting up a backup mail server?
Mr OCP wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm looking to set up a two-mail-server system where both servers hold
> and
> receive the mail for a single domain. Both servers are to hold exactly
> the
> same mail, so that each message sent to the domain would wind up on both
> servers. What I want is for both servers to be MXs of the domain, and for
> one server to, in addition to performing local delivery when e-mail is
> received, automatically send the e-mail to the other.
>
> Is there any way to do this? Please cc all replies to me.
>
Why not have a good fileserver and have the mailboxes mounted by nfs.
If you use maildir then there is much less chance of having problems
with file locking.
both servers then use the same buch of mails and there is no need for
syncing the mails.
Cheers
Xander
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