clustering ??

2001-08-09 Thread François Philippo
what does exactly mean clustering with Qmail ? - 2 servers redondant with a load balancing which accede to the same disk system or - 2 differents servers where each one stock half of mailboxes with a multiplexor who reroute user request on the good server following LDAP attribute or a table

Re: clustering ??

2001-08-09 Thread Henning Brauer
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:04:47PM +0100, François Philippo wrote: what does exactly mean clustering with Qmail ? You mean qmail-ldap, not qmail. Use qmail-ldaps list then. And read http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/ before; at least three times. -- * Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: clustering

2001-04-16 Thread Medi Montaseri
I know of a feature in SGI's File System that launches an event when something including data changes happen to a file. This might be a generic Journalling FS feature. In which case installing a JFS might be one way. However I am not sure of the current state of JFS on Linux. I know there has

Re: clustering

2001-04-16 Thread Andre Oppermann
Medi Montaseri wrote: I know of a feature in SGI's File System that launches an event when something including data changes happen to a file. This might be a generic Journalling FS feature. In which case installing a JFS might be one way. However I am not sure of the current state of JFS on

Re: clustering

2001-04-15 Thread Nick (Keith) Fish
Brett wrote: The search engine always says it's broken when I try to search the archives so I apologize if this is in there somewhere. Thanks in advance. I always use this search engine for the archives: http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/ Make sure you are typing in queuries as just single

Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:37:35PM -0700, Brett wrote: Can someone point me towards documentation on the subject of clustering qmail machines? That is, we're going to be setting up several machines all with the big concurrency patch in an effort to send out more mail faster. Tying all

Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Rizwan
Hi there, Have a look at the piranha high availability clustering of Red Hat. there is a piranha rpm available which does something similar ( for tcp/ip services). Rizwan On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 06:37:35PM -0700, Brett wrote: Can

Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Peter van Dijk([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.04.13 10:23:26 +: I have a central box that generates all configfiles and puts them in a directory called /conf/mail on a NetApp fileserver, from which all qmail boxes copy their configuration periodically. Make sure you copy stuff to tmpfiles and

Re: clustering

2001-04-13 Thread Benjamin Lee
Slightly off topic... I was wondering if anyone has used something like 'watch' or 'stat' (or somthing else?) to detect the modification (change) of a file or directory, and then trigger an rsync? Of course, I could settle with a crond rsync every minute or so, I guess! I do this at the

clustering

2001-04-12 Thread Brett
Can someone point me towards documentation on the subject of clustering qmail machines? That is, we're going to be setting up several machines all with the big concurrency patch in an effort to send out more mail faster. Tying all these qmail installations together through a controller machine

Clustering

2001-03-08 Thread mick
May be running True64 cluster system some time in the future. Has anyone used Qmail in a clustering/shared environment? * Mick Dobra Systems Administrator MTCO Communications 1-800-859-6826 *

Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-19 Thread David L. Nicol
Tracy R Reed wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote: Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail

Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-11 Thread Herbie
I guess that depends how you set up your users, we have ours in a flat file: username [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we just run a script on that file and autocreate the .qmail files on a nightly cron job. soon I guess we'll create the flat file from an LDAP database but that's not done yet. Herbie On

Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-11 Thread Henning Brauer
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:52:51PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it. Using the perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple pop/imap servers

Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-10 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Herbie wrote: Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's. I guess that

Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-09 Thread Tracy R Reed
I am not trying to send a bunch of email (aka spam). I am trying to receive a bunch of email (aka spam) and let users pop/imap it. Using the perdition (search freshmeat) imap/pop proxy I think I can have multiple pop/imap servers with users assigned to each one and pass the user off to the

Re: Clustering qmail servers

2001-02-09 Thread Herbie
Well the simplest way is to have one machine act as the gateway for all mail and create alias files to forward the mail onto the second machine. I used a simple perl script from a flat file to create the .qmail alias's. Or am I misunderstanding the question. Herbi On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Tracy R

Re: qmail Clustering

2000-12-22 Thread Henning Brauer
Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2000 11:40 schrieb Joomy Studio: Hi all, Just 4 Questions, please use the qmail-ldap list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Are there any archive of qmail-ldap ? I'm setting on up. Will be available the next days. 2. How qmail-ldap works on clusting ? mail arrives - ldap

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-06 Thread Faried Nawaz
I think coda came up on this list a while ago, and someone said it was, like afs, slow. I don't think actual statistics were posted, though. Try the archives. Faried. -- self name. i want to live/to see the earth turn one more time

Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Thomas Ackermann
do there exist any solutions for clustering qmail to build high-volume-servers ?? i`m looking for some tools or patches to do load-balancing, put pop-boxes on more than one server, use more than one smtp-server... help??? thx

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Gjermund Sorseth
do there exist any solutions for clustering qmail to build high-volume-servers i`m looking for some tools or patches to do load-balancing, put pop-boxes on more than one server, use more than one smtp-server... help??? There are several server load balancer solutions available. I use

RE: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Brett Randall
Ackermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:50 PM To: MailingList Qmail Subject: Clustering Qmail do there exist any solutions for clustering qmail to build high-volume-servers ?? i`m looking for some tools or patches to do load-balancing, put pop-boxes on more than

RE: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Sill
"Brett Randall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - AFS (Andrew File System) also looks interesting for some real hard-core distributed, clustered work Yeah, AFS *looks* good on paper... Know anyone who's actually using it? What do they think of it? -Dave

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread markd
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:11:22PM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: None as such.. Except that the concepts and some details have been discussed on this list quite a few times - often by people who have implemented such schemes. The archives are your friend. - Look into a NFS/NIS combination (I

RE: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Brett Randall
None as such.. Except that the concepts and some details have been discussed on this list quite a few times - often by people who have implemented such schemes. Must have had a subject with no meaning and so hello to the good old 'delete' key :P - Look into a NFS/NIS combination (I use

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Rob Hines Jr.
I had this done once, and I used my mailservers used multiple NICs, IP aliasing, and NAT to deliver mail from a real IP mail server, to a Private IP fileserver mounted via NFS. Not really any security issues that I found, since the mail servers only have to run NFS client, and the fileserver is

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Andy Bradford
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:08:38 EDT, Dave Sill wrote: Yeah, AFS *looks* good on paper... Know anyone who's actually using it? What do they think of it? What about Coda? Is it a viable solution for a distributed filesystem? It has been in development since 1987 if I remember correctly... You

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread markd
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:57:27AM +1000, Brett Randall wrote: None as such.. Except that the concepts and some details have been discussed on this list quite a few times - often by people who have implemented such schemes. Must have had a subject with no meaning and so hello to the

Re: Clustering Qmail

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Green
also sprach andyb: On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:08:38 EDT, Dave Sill wrote: Yeah, AFS *looks* good on paper... Know anyone who's actually using it? What do they think of it? I'd be interested in hearing about this as well. What about Coda? Is it a viable solution for a distributed

How to setup clustering and qmqpd?

2000-04-13 Thread ywshum
Hi everyone, I'm using qmail with ldap patch. Hi there, I would like to implement clustering, ie a few qmail servers with the same domain name. Problem is, there is no documentation on how to set this up. I already know that the mailhost attribute in ldap must point to the other qmail servers