Re: [Exim] multiple exim, same spool

Dan Egli <dan@???> wrote:
> Philip Hazel wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, David Amiel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there a way to make several exim (on different servers) to work
>>> in the same (shared) spool directory ?
>>
>>
>> Check out the localhost_number option.
>>
>> But I wouldn't really advise putting the spool on shared storage.
>> It's going to increase contention, quite apart from the network
>> traffic.
>>
>
> So how would you recomend such a setup, Philip? Let us assume a simple
> setup:
>
> 2 Systems dedicated to receiving mail
> 1 System dedicated to Sending mail
>
> The receive systems have no queue runners (-bd only), and do not
> attempt to send mail at all. They are basically queue only.
> the Sending systems technically are normal, but let's say port 25 is
> blocked (eg. Linux Iptables).
>
> Now let's assume I'm a customer of this ISP. I send a message to the
> receiving machine that is intended to go to my friend on a whole
> different system. So it goes into the Queue from one of the reception
> systems, and the sending system picks it up and sends it out.
>
> I feel this would not be such an uncommon setup.

Not uncommon at all - use SMTP or LMTP between the 2 servers. This will work
out more efficient than trying to share the spool. Adjust the firewall rules
accordingly.

Peter