On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:58:41PM -0400, Victor Tavares wrote:
> There can be problems with load-balancing over two mail servers, depending
> on their purpose. If they only provide outgoing mail, or are a mail hub for
> internal mail, then load-balancing with a localdirector or similar device
> is not a problem. However, if your users need to pick up the mail from
> either one of the servers - i.e. mbox or maildir - then the mail needs to
> be delivered to a shared volume - eg NFS, storage appliance, third server,
> etc.
Oops- i should have mentioned that. Ideally i suppose you could
use something like a netapp for the user volumes connected
to the qmail machine via a private segment. Whatever works i suppose.
> The above was done more for availability than performance, but man, the
> performance is pretty good.
Qmail has always given me stellar performance on a single machine-
i imagine a scenario such as you've described could only yield
even better performance.
Cheers,
Jonathan
