Re: clustering ??

2001-08-09 Thread andrew

François,

> what does exactly mean clustering with Qmail ?
> 
> - 2 servers redondant with a load balancing which accede to the same disk
> system
> or
> - 2 differents servers where each one stock half of mailboxes with a
> multiplexor who reroute user request on the good server following LDAP
> attribute or a table?
> or
> - something else ?

Either is possible: By virtue of its design, qmail can address both
models. Your first model is typically addressed with Maildirs
held on an NFS device (I expect searching the archive for "NFS"
will help you here); the second is the approach used by qmail-ldap
as mentioned by Henning in his reply.

cheers,

Andrew.




Re: clustering ??

2001-08-09 Thread Henning Brauer

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:04:47PM +0100, François Philippo wrote:
> what does exactly mean clustering with Qmail ?

You mean qmail-ldap, not qmail. Use qmail-ldaps list then. And read
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/ before; at least three times.

-- 
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* Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, Germany   *
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(Dennis Ritchie)



clustering ??

2001-08-09 Thread François Philippo

what does exactly mean clustering with Qmail ?

- 2 servers redondant with a load balancing which accede to the same disk
system
or
- 2 differents servers where each one stock half of mailboxes with a
multiplexor who reroute user request on the good server following LDAP
attribute or a table?
or
- something else ?


thanx
@+




Re: clustering

2001-04-16 Thread Andre Oppermann

Medi Montaseri wrote:
> 
> I know of a feature in SGI's File System that launches an event when something
> including data changes happen to a file. This might be a generic Journalling FS
> feature. In which case installing a JFS might be one way. However I am not sure
> of the current state of JFS on Linux. I know there has been many talks including
> SGI contributions, but don't know of any current GA version. Maybe others can
> educate me as well.

Or you could use FreeBSD 4.x with kqueue support. With an kernel queue
you can select() on any kernel event, including filesystems, files and
directories.

See the man page:


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kqueue&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE&format=html

and see 'tail' for an programming example:

 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/tail/

-- 
Andre


> Benjamin Lee wrote:
> 
> > Slightly off topic...
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has used something like 'watch' or 'stat' (or
> > somthing else?) to detect the modification (change) of a file or directory,
> > and then trigger an rsync?
> >
> > Of course, I could settle with a crond rsync every minute or so, I guess!
> > I do this at the moment, was just thinking about an alternative...
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:23:22PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> > > Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.13 10:23:26 +:
> > > > I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a
> > > > directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all
> > > > qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically.
> > > >
> > > > Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and then move 'm (also when
> > > > generating files to go into /conf/mail). Especially over
> > > > NFS, doing it any different is guaranteed trouble.
> > > in several projects i used rsync[1] over ssh (openssh[2]) for distributing
> > > configuration between machines (push updates).
> > >
> > > rsync does a great job, supporting incremental/differential updates and
> > > moving the files in place after they have been transmitted and verified.
> > >
> > > happy easter
> > > /k
> > >
> > > links:
> > > [1] http://rsync.samba.org/
> > > [2] http://www.openssh.com/
> > >
> > > --
> > > > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is no.
> > > KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de
> 
> --
> ===
> Medi Montaseri, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408-450-7114
> Prepass Inc, IT/Operations, Software Eng.
> ===



Re: clustering

2001-04-16 Thread Medi Montaseri

I know of a feature in SGI's File System that launches an event when something
including data changes happen to a file. This might be a generic Journalling FS
feature. In which case installing a JFS might be one way. However I am not sure
of the current state of JFS on Linux. I know there has been many talks including
SGI contributions, but don't know of any current GA version. Maybe others can
educate me as well.

Benjamin Lee wrote:

> Slightly off topic...
>
> I was wondering if anyone has used something like 'watch' or 'stat' (or
> somthing else?) to detect the modification (change) of a file or directory,
> and then trigger an rsync?
>
> Of course, I could settle with a crond rsync every minute or so, I guess!
> I do this at the moment, was just thinking about an alternative...
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:23:22PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> > Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.13 10:23:26 +:
> > > I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a
> > > directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all
> > > qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically.
> > >
> > > Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and then move 'm (also when
> > > generating files to go into /conf/mail). Especially over
> > > NFS, doing it any different is guaranteed trouble.
> > in several projects i used rsync[1] over ssh (openssh[2]) for distributing
> > configuration between machines (push updates).
> >
> > rsync does a great job, supporting incremental/differential updates and
> > moving the files in place after they have been transmitted and verified.
> >
> > happy easter
> > /k
> >
> > links:
> > [1] http://rsync.samba.org/
> > [2] http://www.openssh.com/
> >
> > --
> > > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is no.
> > KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de

--
===
Medi Montaseri, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 408-450-7114
Prepass Inc, IT/Operations, Software Eng.
===






Re: clustering

2001-04-15 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish

Brett wrote:
> 
> The search engine always says it's
> broken when I try to search the archives so I apologize if this is in there
> somewhere. Thanks in advance.

I always use this search engine for the archives:
http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/

Make sure you are typing in queuries as just single words and not any
+"bla" or boolean operations.

-- 
Keith
Network Engineer
Triton Technologies, Inc.



Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Benjamin Lee


Slightly off topic...

I was wondering if anyone has used something like 'watch' or 'stat' (or
somthing else?) to detect the modification (change) of a file or directory,
and then trigger an rsync?

Of course, I could settle with a crond rsync every minute or so, I guess!
I do this at the moment, was just thinking about an alternative...




On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:23:22PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:
> Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.13 10:23:26 +:
> > I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a
> > directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all
> > qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically.
> > 
> > Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and then move 'm (also when
> > generating files to go into /conf/mail). Especially over
> > NFS, doing it any different is guaranteed trouble.
> in several projects i used rsync[1] over ssh (openssh[2]) for distributing
> configuration between machines (push updates).
> 
> rsync does a great job, supporting incremental/differential updates and
> moving the files in place after they have been transmitted and verified.
> 
> happy easter
> /k
> 
> links:
> [1] http://rsync.samba.org/
> [2] http://www.openssh.com/
> 
> -- 
> > Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is no.
> KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de



Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach

Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.13 10:23:26 +:
> I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a
> directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all
> qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically.
> 
> Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and then move 'm (also when
> generating files to go into /conf/mail). Especially over
> NFS, doing it any different is guaranteed trouble.
in several projects i used rsync[1] over ssh (openssh[2]) for distributing
configuration between machines (push updates).

rsync does a great job, supporting incremental/differential updates and
moving the files in place after they have been transmitted and verified.

happy easter
/k

links:
[1] http://rsync.samba.org/
[2] http://www.openssh.com/

-- 
> Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is no.
KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de



Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Rizwan


Hi there,

Have a look at the piranha high availability clustering of Red Hat.
there is a piranha rpm available which does something similar ( for
tcp/ip services).

Rizwan


On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:37:35PM -0700, Brett wrote:
> > Can someone point me towards documentation on the subject of clustering
> > qmail machines? That is, we're going to be setting up several machines all
> > with the big concurrency patch in an effort to send out more mail faster.
> > Tying all these qmail installations together through a controller machine is
> > where I start to get hazy. If somebody's done it before and can offer some
> > pointers, I'd be much appreciative. The search engine always says it's
> > broken when I try to search the archives so I apologize if this is in there
> > somewhere. Thanks in advance.
> 
> I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a
> directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all
> qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically.
> 
> Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and then move 'm (also when
> generating files to go into /conf/mail). Especially over
> NFS, doing it any different is guaranteed trouble.
> 
> It works like a charm.
> 
> Greetz, Peter.
-- 
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful 
--  
 Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the world; 
   Most Gracious, Most Merciful; 
   Master of the Day of Judgment. 
Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek. 
 Show us the straight way, 
   The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, 
 those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray. 
Qur'aan Ch:1




Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:37:35PM -0700, Brett wrote:
> Can someone point me towards documentation on the subject of clustering
> qmail machines? That is, we're going to be setting up several machines all
> with the big concurrency patch in an effort to send out more mail faster.
> Tying all these qmail installations together through a controller machine is
> where I start to get hazy. If somebody's done it before and can offer some
> pointers, I'd be much appreciative. The search engine always says it's
> broken when I try to search the archives so I apologize if this is in there
> somewhere. Thanks in advance.

I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a
directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all
qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically.

Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and then move 'm (also when
generating files to go into /conf/mail). Especially over
NFS, doing it any different is guaranteed trouble.

It works like a charm.

Greetz, Peter.



clustering

2001-04-12 Thread Brett

Can someone point me towards documentation on the subject of clustering
qmail machines? That is, we're going to be setting up several machines all
with the big concurrency patch in an effort to send out more mail faster.
Tying all these qmail installations together through a controller machine is
where I start to get hazy. If somebody's done it before and can offer some
pointers, I'd be much appreciative. The search engine always says it's
broken when I try to search the archives so I apologize if this is in there
somewhere. Thanks in advance.





Clustering

2001-03-08 Thread mick

May be running True64 cluster system some time in the future. Has anyone
used Qmail in a clustering/shared environment?

*
Mick Dobra
Systems Administrator
MTCO Communications
1-800-859-6826
*




Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-19 Thread David L. Nicol

Tracy R Reed wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote:
> > Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all
> > mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I
> > used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's.
> 
> I guess that could work but there is no easy automated way to manage so
> many qmail files and we already have 1760 in there already. I think I'll
> just have my qmail-queue wrapper rewrite the envelope recipient address
> and add a headerline which is basically what qmail-alias does when it
> forwards an email on somewhere else. I was just wondering if anyone came
> up with a more correct solution but it seems not.


I'd think a NFS solution would be appropriate, so the SMTP boxes and the POP
boxes can all be different boxes, that access the same user directories.  This
is the whole point of maintaining MailDir NFS-safety isn't it?



-- 
  David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  "Nothing in the definition of the word `word' says that a 
  word has to be in a dictionary to be called one." -- Anu Garg




Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-11 Thread Henning Brauer

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:52:51PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to
> receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it.  Using the
> perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple
> pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to
> the correct one according to a dbm/ldap/whatever lookup. Now the problem
> is how do I get email addressed to a particular user onto the correct
> server?  Say I want all email for users with names from a-m to go to
> server1 and m-z to server2? 

qmail-ldap can do this. http://www.nrg4u.com and
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/

-- 
Henning Brauer | BS Web Services
Hostmaster BSWS| Roedingsmarkt 14
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 20459 Hamburg
http://www.bsws.de | Germany



Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-11 Thread Herbie

I guess that depends how you set up your users, we have ours in a flat
file:

username [EMAIL PROTECTED]

so we just run a script on that file and autocreate the .qmail files on a
nightly cron job. soon I guess we'll create the flat file from an LDAP
database but that's not done yet.

Herbie

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Tracy R Reed wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote:
> > Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all
> > mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I
> > used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's.
> 
> I guess that could work but there is no easy automated way to manage so
> many qmail files and we already have 1760 in there already. I think I'll
> just have my qmail-queue wrapper rewrite the envelope recipient address
> and add a headerline which is basically what qmail-alias does when it
> forwards an email on somewhere else. I was just wondering if anyone came
> up with a more correct solution but it seems not.
> 
> --
> Tracy Reed  http://www.ultraviolet.org
> * Maelcum likes his flame broiled dragon on sourdough
> 




Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-10 Thread Tracy R Reed

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote:
> Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all
> mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I
> used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's.

I guess that could work but there is no easy automated way to manage so
many qmail files and we already have 1760 in there already. I think I'll
just have my qmail-queue wrapper rewrite the envelope recipient address
and add a headerline which is basically what qmail-alias does when it
forwards an email on somewhere else. I was just wondering if anyone came
up with a more correct solution but it seems not.

--
Tracy Reed  http://www.ultraviolet.org
* Maelcum likes his flame broiled dragon on sourdough



Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-09 Thread Herbie

Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all
mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I
used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's.

Or am I misunderstanding the question.

Herbi

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Tracy R Reed wrote:

> I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to
> receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it.  Using the
> perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple
> pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to
> the correct one according to a dbm/ldap/whatever lookup. Now the problem
> is how do I get email addressed to a particular user onto the correct
> server?  Say I want all email for users with names from a-m to go to
> server1 and m-z to server2? 
> 
> I've searched the archives and can't find anything conclusive.
> 
> I do have a perl script wrapping qmail-queue which does some basic mail
> filtering. I suppose I could alter the envelope "to" address appropriately
> to send it to the correct machine but I am wondering if there is any more
> elegant way to accomplish this.
> 
> --
> Tracy Reed  http://www.ultraviolet.org
> My pid is Inigo Montoya.  You kill -9 my parent process.  Prepare to vi.
> 




Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-09 Thread Tracy R Reed

I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to
receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it.  Using the
perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple
pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to
the correct one according to a dbm/ldap/whatever lookup. Now the problem
is how do I get email addressed to a particular user onto the correct
server?  Say I want all email for users with names from a-m to go to
server1 and m-z to server2? 

I've searched the archives and can't find anything conclusive.

I do have a perl script wrapping qmail-queue which does some basic mail
filtering. I suppose I could alter the envelope "to" address appropriately
to send it to the correct machine but I am wondering if there is any more
elegant way to accomplish this.

--
Tracy Reed  http://www.ultraviolet.org
My pid is Inigo Montoya.  You kill -9 my parent process.  Prepare to vi.



Re: qmail Clustering

2000-12-22 Thread Henning Brauer

Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2000 11:40 schrieb Joomy Studio:
> Hi all,
>
> Just 4 Questions,

please use the qmail-ldap list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 1. Are there any archive of qmail-ldap ?

I'm setting on up. Will be available the next days.

> 2. How qmail-ldap works on clusting ?

mail arrives -> ldap lookup -> every user has an mailhost-attribute defined 
in ldap, if mailhost<>me mail is forwarded to mailhost via qmqp 

> 3. Are there any balance dir creation for user's home dir ? like vpopmail
> or vmailmgr

don't understand yozr question.

> 4. Can I use qmail-ldap + CourierIMAP with auth ldap from the same ldap of
> qmail ?

yes.

> I'm setting up 200K POP3/IMAP/qmail users.
> pls. help.
>
> Thanks in advance.

hmm, i'm getting the impression i answered exactly this mail a few days 
before...

-- 

Henning Brauer |  BS Web Services
Hostmaster BSWS|  Roedingsmarkt 14
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |  20459 Hamburg
www.bsws.de|  Germany



qmail Clustering

2000-12-21 Thread Joomy Studio

Hi all,

Just 4 Questions,

1. Are there any archive of qmail-ldap ?
2. How qmail-ldap works on clusting ?
3. Are there any balance dir creation for user's home dir ? like vpopmail or
vmailmgr
4. Can I use qmail-ldap + CourierIMAP with auth ldap from the same ldap of
qmail ?

I'm setting up 200K POP3/IMAP/qmail users.
pls. help.

Thanks in advance.




Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-06 Thread Faried Nawaz


I think coda came up on this list a while ago, and someone said it was, like
afs, slow.  I don't think actual statistics were posted, though.  Try the
archives.



Faried.
-- 
  self name.
  i want to live/to see the earth turn one more time
 i wanna live/to feel a hand that isn't mine
superstar!



Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Green

also sprach andyb:
> On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:08:38 EDT, Dave Sill wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, AFS *looks* good on paper... Know anyone who's actually using
> > it? What do they think of it?

I'd be interested in hearing about this as well.

> What about Coda?  Is it a viable solution for a distributed filesystem? 
>  It has been in development since 1987 if I remember correctly...  You 
> would think that is enough time to mature. :-)

I posted to the coda mailing list asking just this. I will cut-and-paste all
of the responses I got:

---start responses---
---end responses---

HTH!

(FWIW, it looks fairly stable, but still horrendously complex. I don't think
I would trust it to a production system, if for no other reason than it
seems awfully easy to mess up.)

/pg
-- 
Peter Green : Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
panic("Fod fight!");
(In the kernel source aha1542.c, after detecting a bad segment list.)




Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread markd

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:57:27AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote:
> > > None as such..
> >
> > Except that the concepts and some details have been discussed on this list
> > quite a few times - often by people who have implemented such schemes.
> Must have had a subject with no meaning and so hello to the good old
> 'delete' key :P

Hmm. The archive search shows these as the first 20 of 187 entries,
how much meaning do you need in a subject?

1.Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions
2.Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions
3.Re: Qmail on a linux cluster
4.Large Mail Cluster Questions
5.RE: Qmail on a linux cluster
6.Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions
7.Re: Qmail on a linux cluster
8.Re: Large Mail Cluster Questions
9.Re: Qmail on a linux cluster
   10.Qmail on a linux cluster
   11.RE: Qmail on a linux cluster
   12.Re: Qmail on a linux cluster
   13.Cluster Awareness of qmail
   14.Re: Cluster Awareness of qmail
   15.Re: Cluster Awareness of qmail
   16.Re: Server cluster
   17.Re: Server cluster
   18.Re: Server cluster
   19.Re: Server cluster
   20.Re: Server cluster


Regards.




Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Andy Bradford

On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:08:38 EDT, Dave Sill wrote:

> Yeah, AFS *looks* good on paper... Know anyone who's actually using
> it? What do they think of it?

What about Coda?  Is it a viable solution for a distributed filesystem? 
 It has been in development since 1987 if I remember correctly...  You 
would think that is enough time to mature. :-)

Andy




Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Rob Hines Jr.

I had this done once, and I used my mailservers used multiple NICs, IP
aliasing, and NAT to deliver mail from a real IP mail server, to a Private IP
fileserver mounted via NFS. Not really any security issues that I found, since
the mail servers only have to run NFS client, and the fileserver is
inaccessible from the internet.

It worked out all right.

Rob

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:11:22PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote:
> > None as such..
>
> Except that the concepts and some details have been discussed on this list
> quite a few times - often by people who have implemented such schemes.
>
> The archives are your friend.
>
> > - Look into a NFS/NIS combination (I use this for a distributed e-mail
>
> hopefully via secured means - especially NIS.
>
> Regards.

--
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System Administrator

Phone:  (317)469-4535
Fax:  (317)469-4508
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Brett Randall

> > None as such..
>
> Except that the concepts and some details have been discussed on this list
> quite a few times - often by people who have implemented such schemes.
Must have had a subject with no meaning and so hello to the good old
'delete' key :P

> > - Look into a NFS/NIS combination (I use this for a distributed e-mail
>
> hopefully via secured means - especially NIS.
Yeah...I am away of the risks, but a few ACLs and a little Kerberos or
similar go a long way...

/BR

Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/




Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread markd

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:11:22PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote:
> None as such..

Except that the concepts and some details have been discussed on this list
quite a few times - often by people who have implemented such schemes.

The archives are your friend.

> - Look into a NFS/NIS combination (I use this for a distributed e-mail

hopefully via secured means - especially NIS.


Regards.



RE: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Sill

"Brett Randall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>- AFS (Andrew File System) also looks interesting for some real hard-core
>distributed, clustered work

Yeah, AFS *looks* good on paper... Know anyone who's actually using
it? What do they think of it?

-Dave



RE: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Brett Randall

None as such..I have been meaning to write a HOWTO for something similar but
this year has just been crazy...maybe next year. BUT some suggestions:

- Look into a NFS/NIS combination (I use this for a distributed e-mail
system currently spanning a city, soon to be spanning several locations on
the planet)
- AFS (Andrew File System) also looks interesting for some real hard-core
distributed, clustered work

There are probably other ideas, but those are the two I would look into
first.

/BR

Manager
InterPlanetary Solutions
http://ipsware.com/


> -Original Message-
> From: Thomas Ackermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:50 PM
> To: MailingList Qmail
> Subject: Clustering Qmail
>
>
> do there exist any solutions for clustering qmail to build
> high-volume-servers
> ??
> i`m looking for some tools or patches to do load-balancing, put
> pop-boxes on
> more than one server, use more than one smtp-server...
> help???
>
> thx
>




Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Gjermund Sorseth


>do there exist any solutions for clustering qmail to build high-volume-servers
>i`m looking for some tools or patches to do load-balancing, put pop-boxes on
>more than one server, use more than one smtp-server...
>help???

There are several server load balancer solutions available. I use the
'ServerIron' product from Foundry Networks (www.foundrynet.com), it seems
to perform very well. You also have Alteon (www.alteonwebsystems.com),
cisco, and others.

These boxes are regular layer-2 switches. In addition to
switching packets like other switches, they perform load balancing.
One way they can do this is to reply to ARP requests
for the IP addresses your mail server is known by on the Internet.
Your router will therefore send all incoming IP packets to the ethernet
address of the switch. The switch will pick up a packet, choose the
front-end mail processor (FEP) it thinks has the lowest load at the moment,
put that ethernet address on the packet instead of its own and put
the packet back on the wire for the FEP to pick up.

The switch also monitors the FEP's and routes connection requests to
other working servers if a FEP is discovered to be faulty. This makes error
situations and maintainance downtime invisible to the clients.

-- 
Gjermund Sorseth



Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Thomas Ackermann

do there exist any solutions for clustering qmail to build high-volume-servers
??
i`m looking for some tools or patches to do load-balancing, put pop-boxes on
more than one server, use more than one smtp-server...
help???

thx



How to setup clustering and qmqpd?

2000-04-13 Thread ywshum

Hi everyone,

I'm using qmail with ldap patch.

Hi there,

I would like to implement clustering, ie a few qmail servers with the
same domain name. Problem is, there is no documentation on how to set this
up. I already know that the mailhost attribute in ldap must point to the
other qmail servers.

However, how do i set up qmqpd? Where do i run it from?


thanks a lot!

steve