the mail trail...sendmail
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Tue Mar 29 12:35:27 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 14:12 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 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
Alexander,
I get it. I must have been in single-threading mode. I'll have a look
at cyrus-murder.
Thanks.
Bob...
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