Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:56:09 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Robert J. Collins" <rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu>, "Brian Whalen" <bri@sonicboom.org> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: redundant mail servers Message-ID: <00be01c13f99$a6225aa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <001401c13f7d$ec9e8c40$b655cd80@dhcp.hwi.buffalo.edu>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Robert J. Collins [mailto:rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu] >Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:38 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Brian Whalen >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: redundant mail servers > > >> 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. > This stems from the reason that the FreeBSD 4.X NFS don't support locking. There's an experimental lockd at http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/lockd-0.2a.tar.gz just run make under 4.X locking is in FreeBSD 5.0, both server and client. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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