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...
