On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 04:59, Timothy Arnold wrote:
> I would like to investigate the possibility of having two mailservers, both
> recieving mail which would be put into a 'repository' - this then would be
> accessible via POP3. If one mailserver goes down, the other one will be able
> to operate in 'standalone' mode until the other mail server is operational.
MySQL db with replication to a backup MySQL db for user information
(username and passwords. For replication - you need to write scripts.
A storage device (Maxtor, or Netapp if you can afford one) or maybe just
a linux fileserver mounted over NFS to store mail in hashed maildirs.
> This repository should also be able to store usernames/domains and other
> configuration options.
Configuration - keep your exim.conf current using rsync between the two
servers.
srs