Re: redundant mail servers

[Peter van Dijk]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:41:27PM -0500, Gopi Sundaram wrote:
[snip]
> I guess if I use the maildir format, setting up redundant mailservers
> becomes easy. Here's my understanding:
> 
> * equal priority MX records for two servers.
> * both servers running qmail, mail stored in an NFS mounted spool dir.
> * One or more servers that run IMAP/POP services that people can
>   connect to (perhaps through one alias - mail.domain)
> 
> Have I got it right?

Yes.

Our setup adds a seperate shellserver, and combines POP+delivery on
the same set of boxes.

Greetz, Peter.