the mail trail...sendmail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 29.03.2005 schrieb Bob Chiodini um 13:53:

> I've been giving this a lot of thought lately :-).  Someone here maybe
> able to answer this.  Since John's mail volume is relatively low, is
> there a way through sendmail to force the rsync after each received
> email is processed?  Something in sendmail.mc/sendmail.cf, after it runs
> procmail, a macro perhaps?
> 
> Bob...

As Sendmail does not store the mail itself, it has no hands on the mail
spool. Speaking about a professional, high volume solution I would
realize the high availability, mirrored mail access server with a
product like Cyrus-Murder. Setting up an automatic copying, either with
Sendmail macros or Procmail, to a second system would be more an
experimental state solution I feel. Doing an rsyncing requires a
mechanism which cares for mail file (mbox or Maildir) lockings, to be
sure to not loose mails when switching over systems. In a high mail
volume environment you can't simply switch off services for the time the
sync process runs.

Alexander


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