Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 16:30:22 -0400 From: "Lapinski, Michael (Research)" <lapinski@crd.ge.com> To: "'Denny Reiter'" <denny@reiters.org> Cc: Jamie <jamie@gnulife.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Server out of space -- Need suggestions Message-ID: <E4AAC34FE3CF564D8AE89EB8AC333FD705CFEF27@XMB03CRDGE>
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Your not goign to keep them in sync, this is so you users
can recieve *all* of thier mail, regardless if your primary
mail server is up. It is quite easy to config netscape and
other mail clients to poll multiple pop servers for new mail.
I was addressing topic that others had brought up with
using a netapp and sharing it between 2 boxes and having
one box grab the ip of the mail server if it went down.
Its great and all but like I said before, if your mail server
is built well then the network turns into the failure point.
And with the network being the failure point why bother having
redundant mail servers in the same physical location?
-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 4:22 PM
->To: Lapinski, Michael (Research)
->Cc: Jamie; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
->Subject: Re: Server out of space -- Need suggestions
->
->
->On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:12:30PM -0400, Lapinski, Michael
->(Research) wrote:
->> 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)
->
->I didn't think we were discussing MX records. That's fine for
->incoming mail to your users, but does nothing to help your users
->send or receive mail. And while having separate physical locations
->would be great for network failures, how are you going to keep the
->mail spools in sync?
->
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