[geeks] Mail Servers

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Steve Haavik wrote:
> Right. So what you'd want is something that lets you keep those
> filesystems (or at least a few files) in sync. If it was just fail over
> you could try rsync from one server to the backup. Everything else I can
> come up with could be a bit of a pain over the internet. Isn't there a
> mail suite (was it Courier?) that lets you use a database for the back
> end? At least you could keep things in sync as mail comes in on both

Interesting idea.  A database backend.  I just did some looking, and 
many mail servers (including, for example, Postfix) now support that 
feature.

I'll have to try that out.

Peace...  Sridhar