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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



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