[SunHELP] Email replication

[Will Mc Donald]

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
>