From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 22 10:34:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA27371 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA27336 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:33:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04190; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:32:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:32:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: Blaz Zupan cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail distribution In-Reply-To: <199704221457.QAA06519@server.medinet.si> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Blaz Zupan wrote: > > > POP3 on this new machine? I simply can't believe that > > > all providers have only one POP3 server. > > Why cant you? > > How about "single point of failure"? Do you really want me to > believe that f.e. AOL has one single POP3 server for all their > thousands (millions?) of mailboxes? AOL has proprietary, made by their own programmers, software, with disk mirroring etc. Under freebsd, due to record locking issues across NFS etc, there is no clean way to distribute that I know of. > > > I cant think of how you could keep multiple copies of inboxes in sync. > > Yeah, that's the problem I'm trying to solve :) Keep spare parts on hand, keep good backups, and dont worry so much. You figure, a regular full feed news server is a single machine with a lot of disk pushing gigs of data every day, and it can be done on a pentium with ultra wides. If you are worried about drive failure you can always spend money on an external drive array with disk mirroring so that should a drive fail you can hot swap.