On 03/04/03 02:43 +0550, rajkumar_kandasamy wrote: > HI Devdas, > > Thanks for the reply.I am here in sydney and NSW police wants to setup > a linux gateway server and a mail server.The number of mailboxes will be > only 5 or 6.Because they will receive only mails in those mail boxes. > Which they will be printing as criminal records and dossiers. So only > what they want is that if one server goes down can the other take over > the role of primary.I want some advice from ur side. Please post to the list. Please word wrap at 72 characters. Cc'ing to list as well (sorry for violating netiquette here). Do not top post.
I would recommend RAID 5 mailboxes in Maildir shared over NFS to two or more frontend servers with load balancing DNS records. rsync the Maildirs to an alternate server setup as a hot standby, or use an automagic bcc feature on the MTA side (aliases/virtual features) to deliver copies of all email to another standby server. I personally would not use qmail, I prefer postfix. Binand will recommend courier-mta, while SRS would recommend Exim, or Sendmail. Much easier to extend to what you need to worry about. If the email will be in a standard format, you will find it easier to use aliases and script the output directly to a printer. Devdas Bhagat <snip> > -----Original Message----- > From: Devdas Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:02:28 +0530 > Subject: Re: [LIH]Standby Server > > On 02/04/03 14:29 +0550, rajkumar_kandasamy wrote: > > Dear Sharninder, > > > > I have a project where the client wants to setup a gateway server > > and a Qmail Server.What they are expecting is they want backup for > > there mail server.I want to know the exact way of achieving this. > > Pls advice. > Hint: Wordwrap is good. A line length of 72 or 76 is good. > What kind of backup do they want? What failure are they defending > against? Disk crashes? High downtime of a link? Someone accidentally > deleting mail and wanting it restored? > What part of the mail server do they want backed up? > > Devdas Bhagat <snip> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
