Apologies for having bothered you with a problem I could solve
by myself after a little thinking...
My question was:
> we are using a server machine receiving and distibuting e-mail
> for all other machines in our company, among them a number of
> PC's (POP clients). The POP server we use is /usr/lib/mh/popd
> that comes with OSF/1 (v.2.0).
>
> We would like to back the server by a secondary one that takes
> over whenever the first one fails. While handling mail for
> other Unix machines is not a problem, I don't know how to handle
> mail to POP clients. The PC client software we use (Eudora and
> Pegasus) is not able to poll more than one POP server.
>
> A solution could be having the primary server act as a POP
> client and, as soon as it comes up again, retrieve all POP
> mail from the secondary server. Is there a tool (or config.
> trick) that allows me retrieving POP mail from one server
> and put it into another server's POP spool area?
I should have mentioned that the secondary server obtains its
sendmail aliases via NIS from the primary one. The solution
was as easy as overwriting mail aliases for POP clients with
a local /etc/aliases (ULTRIX!) file, having them point to the
primary server:
instead of `pc_user: pc_user_at_pop' (as received via NIS)
locally defined as `pc_user: pc_user_at_primary.server'.
All I had to do then was to set the `local,yp'
precedence for aliases in /etc/svc.conf.
The drawback of this solution is that all POP client aliases
have to be maintained on both systems separately.
Thanks to Hannu Paakko <Hannu.Paakko_at_ktt.ktt.fi>, who pointed
me to a version of Pegasus mail supposed to be able to poll
multiple POP servers.
Sorry for my really stupid question
Steffen.
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Steffen Kluge
ave GmbH Aachen
e-mail: stk_at_ave.ac.agit.de
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Received on Tue Apr 16 1996 - 17:02:53 NZST