> 2 Machines with IMail installed and unique IP's. Both machines
> using a odbc source for adding and authenticating users. Both
> machines pointing to the same directories for mail storage. This
> way if I add a user using the odbc, both boxes get updated. If
> the first box goes down, DNS is pointing to the second as backup.
Are you talking about both boxes using the network to access the hard drive? That
will really slow things down. Plus, what happens if the hard drive fails?
Also, you will find that some mailers will use a secondary MX record (we've seen some
spamware that does this). That means that both machine 1 and machine 2 may be
accessing the hard drive at the same time, both thinking they are in control.
Although IMail does lock appropriate files, you could find weird things happening such
as log file entries that are mixed together.
I'm guessing some other people may have other comments. In general, I'm thinking that
it isn't such a good idea.
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-Scott
Declude: Anti-virus and Anti-spam solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com
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