[KLUG Members] Creating a mail server cluster

[Kevin Mitchell]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>> 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).

If your deliver agent is procmail, you can easily change from mbox to 
maildir format and still use Sendmail.