> My first 'large scale' email relied on twinned IBM 3080, later 3090... > ... but I have learned not to be a believer in clustering for MTA. > > Too many eggs in one basket - even if it is a strong and well-proven > basket. > Which IBM mainframes were, but RH GFS is not (not yet, anyway...) > > WHEN, not IF, s**t breaks, I prefer it breaks in manageable chunks. > > Unless you are taking on Yahoo, MSN, or Gmail, a by-domain split > ordinarily > serves even for large multi-domain ISP's, 'coz there are seldom that many > in any > single domain.tld (or division thereof).
I absolutly agree with this. Be on the safe side with more managable units than one big whole s**t cluster solution. We tried to have such solutions and failed - back to the roots. Tobias Kuhrmann -- ## 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/
