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> From: Petr Novotny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: March 13, 2000 11:15
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: 2nd qmail-server
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> On 13 Mar 00, at 11:08, Stephen Bosch wrote:
> > That's all fine for receiving e-mails when the primary is down -- but
> > what if the server is running, say, IMAP, and users want to retrieve
> > their mail?
>
> Until the mail gets delivered to the primary, the users see nothing.
Ah haaa... *penny drops*
> > What if the secondary receives a bunch of mail and then
> > the primary comes back up? Will users still be able to see the mail
> > that the secondary server received?
>
> After some while, yes. It may take some period for the secondary
> to realize that the primary is up and running. You may speed it up
> by running qmail-tcpok and ALRMing qmail-send on the secondary.
Okay -- what you're saying is that the secondary will pass on the mail to
the primary once it's back up?
*sound of gears grinding*
We put the primary in the rcpthosts of the secondary so that the secondary
will accept mail addressed to the primary, but we don't put it in
control/locals because we want to prevent the secondary from attempting to
deliver locally (which wouldn't work because we don't have users configured
locally, nor a delivery agent like POP3 or IMAP).
All right -- what's the mechanism by which this received mail is passed on
to the primary when it becomes operational again? Does this mail sit parked
in a mail queue? Which queue?
Always learning,
Stephen Bosch
