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Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Juri Haberland wrote:
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>> Joseph Mack <mack.joseph@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > "William Emmanuel S. Yu" wrote:
>> >
>> >> i would like to
>> >> know if i could use LVS for lets say a webmail server such as IMP or
>> >> squirrelmail with LVS w/ PCC or can it work with LVS alone.
>> >
>> > don't know anything about these applications but LVS has been used
>> > to load balance mailservers since the early days.
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>> Hi Joseph,
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>> out of curiosity, how do handle the different mail spools on the real
>> servers?
>
>> If using NFS - what about locking issues? Or are these mail servers just
>> relaying? Any other techniques?
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> For relaying you don't have any problems.
> If you could setup so that the LVS smtp services are only relaying and there
> was only one machine for each MX record, then you wouldn't have any problems
> either. Clearly this is not possible for a setup like aol.com
Yes, I was aware the fact that a relaying-only mail server wouldn't be a
problem - but I had the impression that is is not what is intended to do :-)
Ted's setup would be really intersting ...
Juri
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Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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