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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:15:48 -0300 (ART)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?Alexandre=20Vasconcelos?= <chambsbr@yahoo.com.br>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: redundant mail servers
Message-ID:  <20010917141548.82624.qmail@web12707.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <001401c13f7d$ec9e8c40$b655cd80@dhcp.hwi.buffalo.edu>

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And what about clustering? anyone has something to share?


 --- "Robert J. Collins" <rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu> escreveu: > 

> rcollins, what you might consider doing is creating a minimum of 3
> > servers, two of them would be SMTP recievers, and the last would be the
> > spool server.  Export that server's spool via NFS and mount it onto
> > the SMTP recievers.  Run the pop server on the spool server.
> 
> NFS seems natural, but my "supervisor" is bent on using sendmail. From
> what I've heard sendmail and NFS just don't mix well.
> 
> > Consider also something else when your doing your redundancy planning.
> > Do you have redundant network connections?  A set of redundant mailservers
> > is pointless unless your multihomed and running BGP4 and have your own
> > AS number and all that.
> 
> I've already considered this, but thanks for the reminder. :-)
> 
> -rcollins
> 


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