Joe Garcia writes:
> Maybe I should state this with more detail. We are looking to use several
> qmail servers for incoming mail and several for outgoing, this is mainly for
> redundency. The inbound servers are all hooked up to a nice NetApp 720 via
> NFS. When a connection to an SMTP port is requested from the outside world,
> the firewall sends that request to one of the incoming machines. It knows
> where to put it cause it talks to the local LDAP server on that machine. I
> know that the LDAP server is the slowest part here, but does this seem like
> a viable and fast configuration or have I just been starring at the monitor
> for too long again.
Since you already have a Netapp, mount the same mailstore volume from both
of your servers, and then load-balance the incoming mail between the two.
Storing mail in a Maildir over NFS is perfectly safe, and you don't need to
bother with LDAP.
