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Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS

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Subject: Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS
From: "Victor" <victord@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:59:20 -0500
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:26:10AM -0500, Victor wrote:
> > I want to set up two postfix smpt servers (primary and secondary) and
write
> > to an nfs mailspool directory (so if primary goes down, secondary can
take
> > over and mail continues to go uninterrupted).
>
> Won't work. It's not reliable, and I don't think one Postfix will
> accept the queuefiles of the other PF.
>
> > Is there a best practices example of such an architecture?
>
> Don't do it.

Well, that's easy to say :)
But I need to make sure that if a server fails, the mail continues to go
in/out. What solution is there?

If everything is on one server, then if that fails (complete raid failure /
motherboard failure / disk failure / nick failure / etc), the mail would
come into the secondary server, but there would be no way for users to get
it.



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