On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Robert A. Hayden wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > > Scalability: If your server workload on Sendmail is running too high, you
> > > > can mirror the box over to another machine and load-balance your email
> > > > simply by adding an MX record of equal priority.
> >
> > How would this be easily accomplished? We're migrating from a single mail
> > server to three of them, and trying to sort through 13,000+ mail accounts
> > to see who goes where is, to say the least, not appealing.
> >
> > If we can build some kind of a cluster of some kind so everything is tied
> > together and it we can just round-robin POP requests, that would be sweet.
> >
>
> I'm willing to bet money that you could use nfs to mirror your mail
> directory (/var/spool/mail and their home directories if you have people
> wanting to telnet in and use pine or something) between 2 or 3 machines.
> Then you could use nis/yp to have the users and accounts on both/all the
> machines. Then you could assign 2 or 3 ip's to mail.someplace.com
>
Although one thing i just thought of...
If the server with the directories that are nfs mounte'd from the other
machines goes down for whatever reason, you'd be stuck without mail until
that machine comes back up.
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