> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Kris Oye
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:39 PM
> To: Odhiambo Washington; exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Multiple Maildir Delivery?
>
> So I have tried both approaches. And both work!
>
> I had no idea either of those features existed despite staring at the
> exim.org documentation for hours ;-) Especially the shadow_transport,
> which is the solution I settled on (I had used both
> shadow_transport and
> Craig's "unseen" router trick and ended up with TWO copies of the mail
> on the backup server).
>
> The only semi-annoying thing is that the message filename is different
> for identical copies of the same message, but that seems true
> of either
> approach. I guess there is no way around that though, eh?
>
One difference to note bewtween the two methods is that with the shadow
transport, if the main transport fails so does the shadow. We could not
tolerate this possibility.
Since you want the file names to be the same, you could always use one
local disk transport, then rsync the delivered mail to the nfs share.
