Re: Mail

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

OK, mail is something I do know about.  What exactly
do you want.  With your setup, A DSL line and rooms full
of equipment literally any option on Earth is open to you.

Exactly what types of failures do ou want to be able to
recover from, Deleting by acident?, A disk failure?
A house fire?  Do you need to be able to read/write
mail from any PC in the house.  Access it when traveling?
Do you need to have multiple e-mail accounts consolidated to
one in-box?  Need SPAM filtering?
How much work are you willing to do?

The most elaborate setup would pull all exmail from your
accounts to one PC.  That PC would:
1) hold the mail while making it acccesable to real reads on any
PC i the house
2) forward a copy of each meaasge to an (possibly) off-site
archive server.  Or maybe just a diffent account on the same box

You can make the primary server very robust if you want by
setting up mirred disks or RAID and using multiple power
supplies each fed from an independent UPS.  It could be
made literally bomb proof. It depends on what you are willing
to invest.  We had a design goal at the place I used to work
that you should be able to pull the A/C power cord off any
box in the rack and the end users shouldnever notice.
This rule gets hard when you concider what happens when you loose
an Ethernet switch or a router ut we had fail-overs for
everything


--- Thomas Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Windows again scored and wiped out my mail.  Fortunately, Earthlink
> keeps my address book on their web site, so I did not lose it.  Just
> my archive of mail.  Sigh!
> 
> This again leads me to plead for suggestions for a better mail
> server.  My most critical requirement is that it have a built in way
> to back up the mail archive.  Rob had a suggestion which is of course
> lost with the archive.  At the time it would not run on my machine
> which was running Mandrake 9.0.  I now have several machines running
> 9.1 and have 9.2 on the way.  
> 
> I have left the Earthlink message on my signature line below because
> they have been really helpful.  Further, their mail spam blocker and
> other features work great.  It is just that they do not have a good
> backup scheme.  So Windows was able to get me.  Sigh!
> 
> Thomas Droege
> tdroege2@earthlink.net
> Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.


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