Re: [exim] heartbeat load balancing and exim

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Lähettäjä: Christian Recktenwald
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Vastaanottaja: Jeroen van Aart
Kopio: exim-users
Aihe: Re: [exim] heartbeat load balancing and exim
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:22:27PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Christian Recktenwald wrote:
>
> > To get the idea think of two SMTP listeners just receiving
> > mail and instantly writing them to a common storage.
>
> The common storage part would become an additional weak link, since it
> introduces something one tried to eliminate, a single point of failure.


Depends on the storage. Get a redundant one.

> Also I am not sure also how well exim would work with something like NFS.


You have to use dot-file locking. Exim supports this.

> I agree yes. NFS for example introduces more trouble than it solves in
> the case of pop/imap.


Consider using Maildir.

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