On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:22:27PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Christian Recktenwald wrote:
> 
> > To get the idea think of two SMTP listeners just receiving 
> > mail and instantly writing them to a common storage. 
> 
> The common storage part would become an additional weak link, since it 
> introduces something one tried to eliminate, a single point of failure. 

Depends on the storage. Get a redundant one.

> Also I am not sure also how well exim would work with something like NFS.

You have to use dot-file locking. Exim supports this.

> I agree yes. NFS for example introduces more trouble than it solves in 
> the case of pop/imap.

Consider using Maildir.

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