De Petter Mattheas:
> Even if you are able to access the files on the failed host you should
> not copy the files from one host to another since you could lose email
> this way. If you are using shared storage, you can configure another
> Postfix instance on a second host to manage the queue directory without
> copying. You must ensure that there is only one Postfix instance running
> at a time that accesses the same queue directory. It is best to start
> the second Postfix instance when you are certain the first one is no
> longer accessing the queue directory and be sure that when the first
> host comes back up, Postfix does not start automatically.
>
> How do you setup this ? you just point the maildir folder
> to a shared storage folder on the network ?
By mounting the mail queue from a file server. Historically, such
solutions used NFS. Other solutions may exist at the block level.
but those need to be used with great care, otherwise there will be
massive file system corruption.
Wietse
