splitting the sendmail load

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1 total messages Started by Brian Kantor Fri, 10 Feb 1989 18:47

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Author: Brian Kantor
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1989 18:47

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I've just come up with what I think is a brilliant and original idea:
NFS mount /usr/spool/mqueue across two or more suns, and have one of
them act as the sendmail receiver (-odq) and another run the queue
for delivery.  The idea is to avoid having to buy a bigger machine
for our mail gateway by using the much-less expensive Suns and spreading
the sendmail load out among more than one CPU.

As far as I can tell, sendmail does all it's interaction and locking
using files in the mqueue, so this should work.  Have I missed
something?  Is anyone already doing this or tried it?

	Brian Kantor	UCSD Office of Academic Computing
			Academic Network Operations Group  
			brian@ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN@UCSD

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