Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:45:02 -0500 From: Denny Reiter <denny@reiters.org> To: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <20021007194502.GK30821@reiters.org> In-Reply-To: <20021007141027.H6069-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> References: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF23@XMB03CRDGE> <20021007141027.H6069-100000@floyd.gnulife.org>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Jamie wrote:
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> What other suggestions do you have for building a reliable mailserver?
> And is there a way to set up a couple of servers so that if one goes down,
> the other automatically takes over with the same mail spool if possible?
> We also need to re-engineer here, and I would like to take that into
> consideration. Thanks!
If you have the money, put the mail spool on a NetApp filer and
export it to several identical FreeBSD systems. Then put those
FreeBSD systems behind something like a Foundry ServerIron L4 switch
and have it take care of the load balancing and redundancy.
You'd definitely want to use Maildir for the storage of mail.
Denny
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