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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:37:41 -0400
From:      "Robert J. Collins" <rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Brian Whalen" <bri@sonicboom.org>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: redundant mail servers
Message-ID:  <001401c13f7d$ec9e8c40$b655cd80@dhcp.hwi.buffalo.edu>
References:  <006101c13f21$02f70ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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> rcollins, what you might consider doing is creating a minimum of 3
> servers, two of them would be SMTP recievers, and the last would be the
> spool server.  Export that server's spool via NFS and mount it onto
> the SMTP recievers.  Run the pop server on the spool server.

NFS seems natural, but my "supervisor" is bent on using sendmail. From
what I've heard sendmail and NFS just don't mix well.

> Consider also something else when your doing your redundancy planning.
> Do you have redundant network connections?  A set of redundant mailservers
> is pointless unless your multihomed and running BGP4 and have your own
> AS number and all that.

I've already considered this, but thanks for the reminder. :-)

-rcollins


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