> 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 as far as syncing right now, yes service sendmail stop rsync -ogp /var/spool/mail/* root@dest:/var/spool/mail/ service sendmail start this is fine and will be for some time for sure. but it won't be long til I have to address hosting remote mail. I have not looked into this at all as of yet. does this also go to the mail spool? dunno...if it does than it's still fine to do this. I do know that w/procmail recipes you can ship/copy mail to other folders but I don't know how you would make it copy to another machine. unless maybe you copy to a folder then rsync the folder over. if we would decide to try the procmail thing, I cannot visualize but it seems that while a folder is getting copied, that folder has to be locked. thx john -- rado <rado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
