On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 10:07:34AM -0400, Greg Owen wrote:
> > I _need_
>
> What is need, compared to the path?
>
> > Share queue between
> ...
> > several servers (atleast 4 servers) on
> > different sites can process the queue.
>
> I'm heavily editing here, but are you REALLY saying you want a queue
> shared between different sites which:
>
> > spread all over the world, and the connection to the HQ is not
> > always acceptible when it comes to speed and quality (not becasue HQ
> > is in a bad place, but that the braches don't have that high-speed
> > and good lines to the 'net).
>
> So your sites are:
>
> 1) seperated by great distance, which rules out any SAN or NAS
>
> 2) Connected by questionable data links, which may suffer from low
> performance or occassional downtime.
>
> So, because of the distance, you'll need to use a networked
> filesystem like NFS, AFS, etc. But networked filesystems are designed for
> LAN environments where performance is reasonable and link downtime is rare.
> If you attempt to share your queue (or your mail store) like this, you are
> guaranteeing that performance and reliability will suffer.
>
> > Please help me with a solution to this problem else I'll end
> > up installing sendmail sometime next week.
>
> You don't want a solution to your problem, you want an
> implementation for your solution. But your proposed solution is suboptimal
> to say the least.
>
> Why don't you state the problem instead?
What I want is to be able to share the queue between n+2 servers on each
loocation as well as be able to split a single domain's mailstorage so each
users doesn't need to download his/hers email from the other end of the world.
Best regards
Michael Boman
>
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