On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy 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.
Use mulitpe MX records with equal priority to spread the load across three
servers and multipe A Records for incoming mail.whatever.etc.
> >
> > 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
You sure can, at work we have one big intranet at work with a hell of a
lot of mail accounts on (i would hate to start counting). Currently we
use NIS to sprend the usernames across the networked machines and NFS to
mape the mail directorys and there home directories (you can use amd as
well although we don't use that *yet*).
Hope this helps,
Chris.
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