From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 22 07:10:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA16503 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:10:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.medinet.si (root@server.medinet.si [193.77.234.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA16494 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from blaz@localhost) by server.medinet.si (8.8.5/8.8.5/970420) id QAA05842 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:10:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Blaz Zupan Message-Id: <199704221410.QAA05842@server.medinet.si> Subject: Mail distribution To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:10:35 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk One topic that I don't think was covered here is mail distribution. How do you guys distribute mail to different servers? Let's say you have two servers and one of them goes down. How would I redirect all mail handling to this second machine? Ok, SMTP is no problem, I simply have the same sendmail configuration on both machines. How about mailboxes? How would users pick up mail through POP3 on this new machine? I simply can't believe that all providers have only one POP3 server. NFS mounting the mail spool is not a solution because you still have the same problem if your NFS server goes down. My only idea right now is to have mail be delivered to BOTH pop3 servers. Or am I completely on the wrong track? Of course I'm using FreeBSD as my main platform... -- Blaz Zupan, blaz.zupan@medinet.si, http://www.medinet.si/~blaz Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia