Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-21 Thread Jeroen ten Berge
One thing that could be convenient to is make a hostname that map's to multiple IP's, if you have for instance smtp.mydomain.com which has IP 192.168.1.1 and IP 192.168.1.2 in DNS, the machine that send's to smtp.mydomain.com would send it to the first given IP unless it's not availlable end sends

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-15 Thread John White
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 05:09:46PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > A server goes down that resolvs in global or local downtime (ok, the > box itself is down, but the mail should been taken care of by another > server without we need to plug the raid-set into another box). We > should be able to s

RE: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-15 Thread Greg Owen
I'm on the list, no need to Cc me. Michael Boman wrote: > What I want is to be able to share the queue between n+2 > servers on each loocation Qmail's design specifically precludes putting the queue on a network filesystem, so you can't share it that way. One alternative is to

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-15 Thread Michael Boman
On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 12:47:53AM -0700, John White wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:02:24PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > > 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'

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-14 Thread John White
On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:02:24PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > 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.

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-13 Thread richard
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Boman wrote: > 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. the queue itself c

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-13 Thread Michael Boman
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 sa

RE: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-12 Thread Greg Owen
> 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 o

Re: Share queue between servers and other questions.

2000-05-12 Thread John White
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:43:39PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > Share queue between servers: It is _not_ acceptable that if one of the servers > dies (as in start burnin etc.. ie: a non-recoverble error) the mail that was in > that queue is gone forever. We _must_ be able to put the queue on a NA