On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:32:44AM -0400, Matthew S. Crocker wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I'm building a new mail server/pop server cluster.
>
> The cluster will be built using 5 VA linux boxes and a Network Appliance
> NetFiler. One of the boxes will be a LinuxDirector running the Linux
> Virtual Server kernel patch. I want all machines to handle SMTP/POP3/IMAP
> using qmail. User directories will be NFS mounted from the netfiler. Mail
> queue's can either be local or NFS mounted. Has anyone done this? Are
I'm doing a similar thing right now.
> there any pitfalls I should be aware of? Can I use the same NFS mounted
> mailqueue on all machines? Will there be a problem with two qmail
mailqueues cannot live on NFS, they _must_ be local.
> processes writing mail to the same user mbox over NFS? What if a user is
Yes, mbox and NFS don't mix. Use Maildir.
> picking up mail via POP from one machine while another machine is writing
> mail for that user? The user password/alias file will be handled from a
> MySQL database now, I'll be moving it to Oracle later this year.
Yes, delivery and pop at the same time may cause problems with mbox. Use
Maildir, again :)
Greetz, Peter.
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