From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 9:56:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C54B37B403 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:56:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f8HGu9620305; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:56:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Robert J. Collins" , "Brian Whalen" Cc: Subject: RE: redundant mail servers Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:56:09 -0700 Message-ID: <00be01c13f99$a6225aa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <001401c13f7d$ec9e8c40$b655cd80@dhcp.hwi.buffalo.edu> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert J. Collins [mailto:rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu] >Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:38 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Brian Whalen >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: redundant mail servers > > >> 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. > This stems from the reason that the FreeBSD 4.X NFS don't support locking. There's an experimental lockd at http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/lockd-0.2a.tar.gz just run make under 4.X locking is in FreeBSD 5.0, both server and client. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message