Re: qmail best installation

[Payal Rathod <payal-dated-041112-467@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:37:23AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
>  > Sorry do not get you here. You mean keep 2 boxes, delhi.rediffmail.com
>  > and mumbai.rediffmail.com with same mx and get the mail to any one 
>  > of them. If the mail reaches say mumbai.rediffmail.com then it checks
>  > if the user is on its harddisk, if not then it sends to delhi.rediffmail.com
>  > right?
> 
> Right.

How would that default .qmail file look like. And is it not a overkill
to accept mails (maybe not destined for that box) and somehow "forward"
it to another box.

>  > Is this the way big installations are done?
> 
> I really don't know.  I proposed it to Rediff, but as far as I know,
> they never implemented this idea.  I think that what really happened
> was that bandwidth between cities in India got cheaper and/or more
> reliable.  You'd know that better than I.

I am not too sure too. I am not in this field. But then, how are big
servers really done. Do they go on adding new harddisk or do they work 
over NFS. Are packages like vmailmgr or vpopmail used or are custom
packages doled out. I am really curious.

With warm regards,
-Payal

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