[SunHELP] Email replication

[steve price]

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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