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Re: mail merge - how?!
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Tuvik Beker wrote:
> I have three hosts that are currently independent with regard to mail
> managment. All three have full network connectivity and wach handles its
> own mail. Since they share the same user space it seems a good idea to
> merge their mail.
if they share userspace, I assume you are using NIS to spread the password
file around, and it sure would make sense to have AMD or autofs make their
home directories easely accessible throughout the net.
option 1: one of them exports the mail spool directory and the others
mount it. this is a bit risky (need locking on the spool files when
delivering etc.) but Sendmail has a built-in cure for it, the default
setup lets the NFS exporter of the spool directory do the delivery.
option 2: one of those machines is the bext MX for all the three, with the
other two as backups of it. that way you always use only one machine to
deliver the mail to a local disk, and it's securely queued on the other
two if the main one crashes. managing it on one central node also unifies
mailing lists and other /etc/alias settings (unless it is exported by NIS
already anyway)
finally, the solution I use and am very happy with, only one machine
recieves and delivers mail locally, not to the mail spool directory but to
the homedirs of the users (~user/Mailbox in my case), which are then
exported and mounted through NFS through the net. another option if you
have different homedirs on different computers is to have the users read
mail only through pop or IMAP and not directly from the local spool.
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