From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 18:06:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5019E16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from landm.net (s2.landm.net [66.180.174.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E49C43D78 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 18:06:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mario@lar3d.com) Received: (qmail 31035 invoked by uid 5000); 11 May 2005 18:06:45 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.0.8 ppid: 31023, pid: 31026, t: 0.7793s scanners: attach: 1.0.8 clamav: 0.83/m:31/d:875 spam: Received: from unknown (HELO xp-1.lar3d.com) (mario@lar3d.com@213.96.99.60) by s2.landm.net with SMTP; 11 May 2005 18:06:44 -0000 Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20050511200547.03d10418@mail.lar3d.com> X-Sender: mario@lar3d.com@mail.lar3d.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.1.1 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:06:09 +0200 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Mario Lopez Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on s2.landm.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No score=-1.4 Subject: File system mirroring for SMTP/POP Servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 18:06:48 -0000 Hi, I am seeking for a solution for having several SMTP/POP servers on different network locations, the problem is the following, we actually have one SMTP/POP server with MX backup to another server, ok this solution is ok for some scenarios but when the main SMTP/POP server goes down (it does not happen to much fortunately) the email is not lost but no one can access they email, and this tends to annoy people, is there any possibilty of having some kind of mirrored file system over the network so when one of the servers goes down the DNS would point them to the other IP (using the round robin dns feature or whatever) and people could download email?. I have read about file system mirroring over NFS but it looks like something in development than a mature solution. Thanks.