f you think about it this needs a rather clever system to manage. I give you
the following scenario
you send 30,000 messages a day to mail servers in domain x. eg
bittwiddlers.com there is a catastrophic network failure in the network and
it is impossible to send mail to that domain. Your fast system passes all of
the mail during that day the network is out to the slow system all 30,000
messages. The slow server now has to do the task. or worse your servers
start madly passing the mail around amongst themselves in the vain beleif
that one of the others will be able to get through.
I think what you need is a distributed processing version of qmail.
Any takers ???
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 August 1999 13:19
> To: Qmail List
> Subject: Load balancing / qmqp / transferring messages
>
>
>
> A couple of questions:
> Can qmqp be used to transfer messages from one overloaded
> server to another
> in order to balance the load somewhat?
>
> Along those same lines, is there a way to transfer messages
> which have missed
> their first delivery attempt to another machine in order to
> reduce the queue
> size? For instance if there are three fast machines
> processing messages
> and passing those that had problems to another slower machine
> to send out
> when it can.
>
> Thanks
>
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> Bit Twiddlers, Inc. voices only talk to me.
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