Re: /var/spool/mail and NFS

From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 12:49:19 EST


Ralf Hildebrandt:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:26:10AM -0500, Victor wrote:
> > I want to set up two postfix smpt servers (primary and secondary) and write
> > to an nfs mailspool directory (so if primary goes down, secondary can take
> > over and mail continues to go uninterrupted).
>
> Won't work. It's not reliable, and I don't think one Postfix will
> accept the queuefiles of the other PF.

It will work. They aren't sharing Postfix queues. Only mailboxes.

However, you can avoid the NFS problems by running an LMTP
server on the mailbox machine, and have Postfix deliver
the mail over LMTP.

        Wietse
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