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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 20:03:28 -0500
I am sorry. I sent this to the wrong list :(
I apologize. Just delete this thread.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor" <victord@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS


> > 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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