---------- quoting Mike Williams ---------- > OK, so disconnected operation is great for a laptop, but bad bad news > for a farm of mail servers, with any mailbox format, especially maildir, > as they'd very quickly get into a inconsistant state. > In theory, if you hard mount an NFS share and the server goes away the > client will just hang, until the server reappears. Doubly in theory if a > secondary server (the previously mentioned DRBD mirror of it) does some > arp magic and steals the primaries IP NFS will reconnect fail the > transfer try again, or bounce the message with a temporary problem.
Hmm.. Ok, that's a good point. But then I still have the problem with the central mail storage :( Thx to Peter Gnodde, he pointed me to dbmail [1], which is a project to store mails into a (My)SQL database, I will check that out... Greetings, Matthias footnote: [1] http://www.dbmail.org -- Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless. -- Homer Simpson Homer the Vigilante -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
