Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:12:30 -0400 From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> To: "'Denny Reiter'" <denny@reiters.org>, Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF26@XMB03CRDGE>
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No need to try to have a mail server that will
automatically failover to get the old boxes ip
and what not. That is what MX records and priorities
are for (and they work quite well).
You may also want to have your secondary mx be
at a different physical location than your primary mail
server. (usually the network fails before the hardware,
if built right)
-mtl
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Michael Lapinski
Computer Scientist
GE Research
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
->-----Original Message-----
->From: Denny Reiter [mailto:denny@reiters.org]
->Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:45 PM
->To: Jamie
->Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
->Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions
->
->
->On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:12:18PM -0500, Jamie wrote:
->>
->>
->> 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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