Im also in the process of spec'in out some machines.
Hmm. Would that depend on whether the 250K are mostly in or outbound?
If my mails are mostly inbound, (usr dirs over nfs).
It might also depend on what they are using to access the email, if it's
qpopper and /var/mail then I'd want
I think you need to give us a better idea of the big picture. The first post
made it sound like a single machine, now you talk about NFS servers, multiple
IP addresses, separate access server, etc.
Fair enough, I thought i was going to be able to sneak this one in as a
small question. I
Ok, some of this is above my head (which obviously needs to be resolved
:) ), but maybe i can clarify more here.
For inbound SMTP you don't need a load balancer or layer 4 switch, simply
use multiple MX entries. Let the DNS do the "load balancing" and let the
sending MTAs figure out when a
Is the front end SMTP server doing anything more than relaying? If it's only
relaying then take it out of the picture. It's only adding a point of failure
for you.
no, the front end is not smtp relaying its like an f5 box, essentially
port forwarding to one of many internal ip addresses.
Right. I don't see much point in it then for inbound SMTP. Let the DNS and
MX prefs do the job they were designed to do. IP address space isn't *that*
expensive.
its just that our current situation does not yeild me extra ip space. So I
dont have access to it. Therefore, Im useing an f5
There is a seperate list for vpop thats very good: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For basic stuff, try the INSTALL file in the distribution. That will get
you running (assuming you have a solid install of qmail). vpop (i have
found) is not well documented, but the comments in the code and the user
list is
Had a similar problem so I sym linked /var/spool/mail/$USER to
~$USER/Mailbox.
May not be the best fix, but it works.
jeff...
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Boyd Kelly wrote:
Hi,
I have installed qmail from the rpm, + IMAP toolkit Environment
(imap-4.7)and all is working OK except...
If I use
