[SunHELP] Email replication

[Shain Miley]

I took a look at the site.  I see a script to get messages that go 
through an SMTP server...is that what you are referring to?  I am not 
interested in the SMTP data I want to have a copy of the incoming messages.
Shain

steve price wrote:

> look at www.harker.com for the script either to
> forward email to two destinations or to archive and
> forward...
> 
> --- "Lund, Dennis" <Dennis.Lund at sciatl.com> wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know if Sendmail can be configured to
>> keep a copy of incoming
>> mail locally and forward it to the remote?
>> 
>> Dennis L. Lund
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shain Miley [mailto:smiley at tvdata.com]
>> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 6:35 AM
>> To: Will Mc Donald; sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Email replication
>> 
>> 
>> I am using the University of Washington IMAP daemon.
>>  I agree that there 
>> must be some software that could deliver a message
>> to both a local 
>> machine as well as an additional remote one but I
>> have not come across 
>> one...although I am still looking for a solution.
>> Thanks
>> Shain
>> 
>> Will Mc Donald wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm unfamiliar with IMAP but a few google searches
>> 
>> turned up a few things
>> 
>>> (it's been a slow day :))
>>> 
>>> Specifically which imap daemon are you using? And
>> 
>> on which platform?
>> 
>>> What you want to do sounds like something that
>> 
>> well thought out software
>> 
>>> should be able to do by default.
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Shain Miley" <smiley at tvdata.com>
>>> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:46 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Email replication
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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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