azzouz wrote: > I want to centralise all data in a file serveur and want to have the > mail service (exim and imapd) in another one. > I want also have the mail users delocated in the file serveur. How could > i configure the serveur mail to store the mail in the file server (nfs ? > or other solution).
This rather depends what your file server is, if it already exists. If it's a "black box" then it depends how it exports storage. Some possible options: - NFS as you mentioned - but be aware of possible mailbox locking issues (maildir is OK IIRC) - iSCSI - fibre channel etc. an important factor in the choice is how much money you want to spend. iSCSI is a cheap and (relatively) simple way to export chunks of storage from one machine to another. You can do it using all free/Free software e.g. iscsitarget.sourceforge.net, with recent distros (e.g. RHEL4 + updates) having iSCSI initiators included. Only works if you want to export to a single machine though, unless you want to get into cluster filesystems. (This isn't necessarily a problem; you could still have multiple machines without cluster FS's by using multiple, separate storage exports - if that suits your architecture) Tim -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
