Presuming you want to mirror the queue and the mail store then this is a hard problem of which I have not heard of a bullet-proof solution. I have heard theory about what *might* work, but the practise is painfully sparse in practise. There have been many discussions on this list previously, check the archives. There is no standard solution, especially not with what you call "basic webservers". Sorry. Regards. On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:34:09PM -0000, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello, > I'm searching for an easy solution to operate two servers using qmail that > have both the exact same mails on them (so some kind of mirroring) to ensure > the mails don't get killed when one server fails. I understand, that this is > normally done with RAID 1 or 5 systems, but since we use just basic > webservers without RAID systems (but much of them) we'd prefer a system with > two machines much more as this would also help increase general reability. I > know that I can use one server as secondary which get's the mails if primary > isn't responding but I'm looking for two servers with the same mails on it > (eg. just like RAID 1, but with two different machines instead of just two > harddrives). Has anyone got some infos about such a task? > > TIA > Gabriel > > PS: We're using vpopmail to handle virtual domains. >
