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

[Tymm Twillman <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Oh.  Well, yeah, I mean it makes sense.  I just mean that it's rather
convoluted :)

-Tymm

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jason Carroll wrote:

> 
> 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).
> > > 
> 
> -- Jason Carroll                | IATS Systems and App Group  615 Locust St. 
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