On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 19:34 -0600, rado wrote: > > You do curious things ;) > wow do I do curious things!!! hahaha > > > If we are speaking about INBOX mail accessed via POP3, then only rsync > > the /var/spool/mail/$USER file. This is the one which counts. To be sure > > no fresh new incoming mail interferes, shut down Sendmail during the > > rsync processing. Be aware that POP3 mail clients have their own list > > about mail being read or new. That is not stored on the server side. > > > > Alexander > timing, you are quick! 8 posts later and I posted what you speak of > right here!. > yes, service sendmail stop first then rsync -opg /var/spool/mail/* root > (dest)/var/spool/mail/ > preserve all the permissions,owners and group > hey, I am not saying this is totally complete or even totally correct > technique wise, but at least it works in this specific case. lol. > And you were w/me all the way, ty for that, Alexander! > > I'm just trying to push FC3 and my ownself here w/this project. > I am trying to use only what came on the FC3 disks for this complete > project. The only outside rpm I might use for this is Bob Chiodini's > "heartbeat". I don't even think we need that really. That's up to him if > we do or not. > > This Mail sync thing was really a major pain and if this proves that > it's all that is necessary for this then we lucky. > > thx > John Rose > > Good Morning, 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...
