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Dean Baldwin writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I currently have a cluster of inbound MXs running Amavis/SA etc. At the 
> moment they are running as single entities in the sense that they do not 
> share their databases.
> 
> This clearly has started to cause a couple of problems in that they will 
> all see different volumes of different messages. As such they will be 
> learning different things as different speeds.
> 
> I have been looking at different ways of implementing some kind of 
> central database. One of which is to use Mailguard and drop everything 
> into a MySQL db.
> 
> At the moment the quickest and easiest way of doing this for us is to 
> use an NFS file system they can each see and configure SA/Amavis to use 
> this mount for their dbs.
> 
> Has anybody tried this or any other method of shared db for multiple MXs?

It sounds like an SQL db is the best option.  NFS sharing is certainly not
recommended.

With any luck one of the other large scale users using shared SQL dbs
might pipe up with comments here ;)

- --j.
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