[KLUG Members] Creating a mail server cluster

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Wed Mar 15 19:47:01 EST 2006


> 2. Look up another mail server (like qmail, cyrus, etc) that don't
> require access to files in the same way that sendmail does.   
> Sendmail uses one big file (unless it supports maildirs somehow?)

It does.  Sendmail doesn't store mail, it always uses a delivery agent;
the default delivery agent just stuffs messages in an mbox (which is
lousy).  It is just a matter of swapping out the delivery agent as you
do when using Cyrus (you use the lmtp delivery agent).



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