Any pointers on where to look for setting up mirroring of POP and IMAP?
Thanks.
Ajit
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Legant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Hoew to Queue only mail
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:07:30AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Or you discard the primary and just start using the secondary
> > immediately.
>
> Depending on your configuration, and there seem to be as many
> configurations as there are system adminstrators, it may not be as
> simple as "just start using the secondary".
>
> If you have local users on the primary that are not on the secondary,
> you have additional work. If you have a virtual domain setup with large
> numbers of POP boxes that are not mirrored on the secondary, you have
> additional work. If you authenticate from LDAP and slapd is (was!) on
> the primary, you have additional work.
>
> > In general, using a secondary gives you more control over what happens
> > when the primary goes down.
>
> Certainly.
>
> > Also, using a secondary means that when the primary comes back up, a
> > quick `qmail-tcpok; svc -a /service/qmail' will bring all the mail
> > over to the primary immediately; you don't have to wait for varying
> > timeouts across the Internet.
>
> Again, absolutely true.
>
> For the record, I have secondaries for all domains for which I admin
> mail. My comments were to point out that others felt differently and
> that, while secondaries are convenient, if the primary will be back up
> in a day or two, the SMTP architecture works just fine without them.
>
> It's designed to.
>
> Tim
>
>
