the mail trail...sendmail

[Bob Chiodini]

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...