First of all I apologize profusely for re-submitting this often talked about topic. I've been reading archives and googling and see that people keep asking similar questions, but their needs end up being a bit different so the answers offered up by the community don't quite answer what I'm looking for (as I am understanding them).
My company is currently running three separate load balanced farms (all FreeBSD) - one each for web (Apache), incoming mail (Postfix) and outgoing mail (Postfix) behind virtual IP's. The SMTP farms are split because we do filtering on the incoming, while the outgoing servers have separate user needs. We would VERY much like to keep the web and incoming/outgoing mail aspects separate. I was wondering if anyone is actually doing something remotely similar to this. The outgoing aspect seems like a non-issue in that it appears we can easily configure mailman to dump all mail over to the correct outgoing mail server. The issue that is confusing me is the separation of the web and the incoming mail. I have seen lots of talk about running mailman on two different servers, and I did see a few other people offer information that indicated they are using completely separate web and mail servers, but the threads always seem to move towards solutions that merge some aspect of web and mail onto one server. I'm assuming I will be installing the mailman files onto an NFS partition, which although there is a lot of legitimate concern, it sounds like the Mailman developers have worked hard to address this. Although I'm concerned the load balanced farms, in addition to the separate servers, might be too much for any NFS locking model as it relates to Mailman. (The more I re-read this the more I realize I might be SOL.) So the big questions: 1. How are people handling incoming mail to an SMTP server separate from the web server? 2. How, if at all, are people handling the above question on a load balanced incoming SMTP farm? 3. Do people have any recommendations/warnings for running Mailman on a load balanced web farm? 4. Am I just over-complicating something (the install of Mailman) that doesn't need to be as complicated as I'm thinking (our architecture model aside. ;) )? Thank you very much for your time and consideration of this issue, it is very much appreciated. Matthew Ruzicka - Systems Administrator Front Range Internet, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (970) 212-0728 Got SPAM? Take back your email with MailArmory. http://www.MailArmory.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
