My backup MX will be on located on another continent this is the main reason (latency) why I would like a local read-only replica of my database on the backup MX server.
On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 9:57 PM, Antony Stone <antony.st...@spamassassin.open.source.it> wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2014 at 21:48:58, ML mail wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to run SpamAssassin on my backup MX as well in order to avoid > spam and backscatter. My backup MX will have a similar setup and > configuration as my main MX, that would be > Postfix+amavisd-new+ClamAV+SpamAssassin. > > Now I have all my user configuration including SpamAssassin Bayes and AWL > stored in PostgreSQL and my backup MX will have a read-only replica of > that PostgreSQL database. So my plan would be to have SA on the backup MX > to use the Bayes+AWL data from the PostgreSQL in read-only mode meaning > that it would not write any new Bayes+AWL info but just read it. So my > question here is: is it possible to tell SA through its config to use > Bayes+AWL data in read-only mode? > > If that's not possible then I was thinking I could still use SA on my > backup MX but I would then disable Bayes+AWL. What do you think? Why not provide r/w access to PostgreSQL on the main server from the MX machine? They both presumably have static IPs, so securing that connection shouldn't be a problem? Antony. -- The idea that Bill Gates appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams in The Guardian, 25th August 1995 Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
