Re: [UUG/MLUG] a question and a thought

[Jason Carroll <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Tymm Twillman wrote:

> Dude.  That's really fscked up.  Whoah.
> 

I assume you are referring to the mail forwarding but actually it makes a
lot of sense. Currently the mail spool and the home directories are on
different machines.  By doing this with mail forwarding, we can continue
to porcess mail even when the home directory file server is down. This has
happened several times in the last 9 months and works very nice. In
addition pop/imap users don't even notice when the home directory server
goes down (unless the use IMAP folders in their home directory obviously
but we only have a couple hundred IMAP users vs about 3000 daily pop
users). The only other problem is if you use procmail to move mail to your
home directory folders, obviously this would be affected but only about
150 of our 37000 accounts use procmail currently.

With the previous way of having each machine cross mounted, our outages
were not only more frequent, but longer in duration, and affected all of
the "Showme" services.  Once we impliment the linux boxes we hope to
segregate our services even further providing greater redundancy and
availability. We also are planning for High Availability (as a concept and
software) between the two nodes allowing for failover, the outage lengths 
should be reduced dramatically.

Jason




> 
> > 
> > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Rich Tollerton;; wrote:
> > 
> > > 1. How exactly do you forward mail from showme to another host? I
> > > apologize if this has been asked before. .forward doesn't work, I've
> > > already tried that. I'm growing sick and tired of waiting 10 minutes for
> > > my inbox to crawl over nfs.
> > 
> > Forwarding on Showme does work it's just not immediate.  The mail server
> > doesn't use the .forward in your home directory, but one on the actual
> > mail server.  Every night (I think at midnight) the mail server copies all
> > the .forwards from peoples home directories into the central area and
> > deletes any that were removed. If you need it to happen before then, you
> > can type:
> > 
> > mkforward
> > 
> > after you create the .forward file, and it will update on the mail server
> > within 5 minutes.
> > 
> > (Everything I just said also applies to .procmailrc's if you use them).
> > 

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