mail server replication

[Gerard Ceraso]

Yeah, master slave sort of thing would work nice. If the server losses
an email or two that would be no problem. Plus I can always set up an MX
record for both servers so it would be delivered no matter what. This
way if one server goes down I have the other as a backup and if server
one catches on fire and I cannot get anything back I have server two,
and noone knows the difference. Its always good to have a backup :)

Gerard

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 09:23, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004, Paul Dekkers wrote:
> 
> > Although I think Gerard likes to see both servers active at the same 
> > time, I think the (master-slave kind) synchronisation would be a nice 
> > thing to start with. On the other hand, if I see what offlineimap can 
> > do, I assume it must be possible with just 2 servers to synchronise 
> > folders in a proper way (when keeping some history and logs on both 
> > sides, of course...), am I wrong? (This looks again a bit like 
> > bi-directional synchronisation as with unison, instead of master->slave 
> > think as with rsync or so.)
> 
> I'm not familiar with what offlineimap does, but it isn't possible to have 
> two servers syncing "in unison" without some user interaction to resolve 
> conflicts when they occur after a network partition.
> 
> Obviously a master/slave situation is much easier to achieve.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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