From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 6:38: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from claven.hwi.buffalo.edu (claven.hwi.buffalo.edu [128.205.85.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D44FA37B435 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6159 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2001 13:37:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Ovid) (128.205.85.182) by claven.hwi.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 17 Sep 2001 13:37:58 -0000 Message-ID: <001401c13f7d$ec9e8c40$b655cd80@dhcp.hwi.buffalo.edu> From: "Robert J. Collins" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "Brian Whalen" Cc: References: <006101c13f21$02f70ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: redundant mail servers Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:37:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message