[SunHELP] Email replication

[Shain Miley]

Will,
Well the server is actually IMAP not POP but we are not interested in 
the SMTP data just the mailboxes.  The suggestion about rdist sounds 
like the program mirrordir that I am using in other situations, the 
problem is that the data is only as new as the last time the program 
ran.  The idea of mail forwarding to two servers is more what I had in 
mind...does anyone know how I might go about doing this?  Thanks
Shain

Will Mc Donald wrote:

> I was wondering if you just wanted to replicate your users POP mailboxes? Or
> SMTP data as well. I was under the impression (in my limited understanding)
> that SMTP data was sent to its destination pretty much immediately but now
> that I think about it that can't always be the case, for mail servers not
> permanently connected to the net for instance.
> 
> Will.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lund, Dennis" <Dennis.Lund at sciatl.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 5:33 AM
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Email replication
> 
> 
>> rdist is a good idea.  You can configure it to only update files that
>> are newer/different then those already in place.  This reduces the
>> amount of stuff being duplicated on the secondary server.
>> 
>> man rdist
>> 
>> Dennis L. Lund
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Lee [mailto:johnlee at sc.mcel.mot.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:18 PM
>> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Email replication
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have one idea. First, you can make email forwarding to the two servers,
>> secondly, use rdist periodically sync the mail data.
>> 
>> BR
>> John
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
>> Behalf Of Shain Miley
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:51 PM
>> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: [SunHELP] Email replication
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> Can anyone suggest a way in which I can get real time email replication
>> to a second server?  Currently I have two external drives that hold the
>> data and twice daily I use mirrordir to copy the data from the original
>> to the backup drive, the problem here is that the backup data is
>> anywhere between 0 and 12 hours old.  I could run mirrordir more often
>> but what I want to do is have a separate server get a copy of any email
>> so in the case of a server failure the other machine can be brought up
>> as the original as seamless as possible....any ideas?
>> Thanks,
>> Shain
>> 
> 
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