Actually no, the 2.4 kernel is the NFS client, the 2.2 is the server. So the
qmail box is the client and the Webserver is the server. It just happened
to be that the faster, bigger drives were on the webserver. Never had any
delivery problems (knock on wood).
-- Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean C Truman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 2:05 PM
To: Tim Hunter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using another mail server
If your running 2.4.0 kernel are you running the new NFS v3?
Sean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:03 PM
Subject: RE: Using another mail server
> I do not have access to the box right now, it's at home and having
recently
> upgraded to the 2.4 kernel among other packages I broke pam. So I cannot
> tell you exactly the changes.
> I know I basically just NFS mounted /home and then install sqwebmail
> strictly on the webserver box. I had to install qmail to the webserver
box,
> but just to route mail to the mailserver, I do not have services running
on
> it to accept or check mail. You might be able to edit sendit.sh on
> sqwebmail to route this differently since it communicates directly with
the
> qmail-inject, if you don't want to install qmail on the webserver.
> Both OS's were Linux 2.2.17, actually the qmail server is 2.4.1 kernel
now,
> and qmail still works though I cannot connect with ssh anymore =)
> I know that synching the time was a HUGE issue to make sure messages
showed
> up from reading the list, but I don't remember ever having problems with
it.
>
> -- Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Bradford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:35 PM
> To: Tim Hunter
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Using another mail server
>
>
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:58:48 EST, "Tim Hunter" wrote:
>
> > sqwebmail does not use pop3 or smtp, its all direct disk access.
> > I have mounted the /home by way of NFS to provide sqwebmail on another
> > machine, it works.
>
> Did you have to do anything special with NFS flags when mounting?
> Which OSes are you using? I have tried setting up sqwebmail to read
> and write to a NFS mounted /home and it didn't perform correctly.
> Clicking send would not work, files seemed to not be written properly
> to disk, etc... Someone suggested that it might a difference in time
> on the servers, however, both the client and the server are using xntpd
> to synchronize the clocks to our central time server.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
