backup mail server

[Greg Sidleinger]

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 10:26, Ken Murchison wrote:
> 
> 
> Greg Sidleinger wrote:
> > 
> > I have a small cyrus setup that only a few users use but I want to setup
> > some kind of live backup system for it.  I would really just like to
> > have two cyrus servers that keep the same mail boxes on them so if one
> > fails (hardware, software crash, smurfs, etc...) the other will have a
> > back up the mail and continue to receive mail.  I was reading up on the
> > murder stuff for cyrus but am not sure if it is what I want and if I
> > have the spare systems to support everything.  If anyone could point me
> > in the right direction it would be great.
> 
> Maintaining a hot spare machine _might_ be possible by using the NNTP
> support in Cyrus 2.2, since this is what NNTP does, but nothing has been
> done on this front.
> 
Thanks for the info.  I will be doing a lot more reading up on this
stuff for the rest of this month because I plan on replacing my current
mail server at the end of the month.  First I need to figure out why
when sending mail to Gate does not get put into gate mailbox.

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