Has anyone tried installing mailman on one server, in a directory

that's NFS mounted on a second machine (so that mailman is essentially available on both servers), and have the load be distributed across both machines?

In other words: have the entire mailman config and db files, NFS

mounted on server two. Mirror the sendmail aliases files and set the servers up so that for sendmail, one is a master, and one is a backup so that when one server becomes busy (sending mail out), the other can receive mail for mailman, process it, and send mail out as well (instead of having to wait for the primary server to become available)?

Theoretically, if that works, one should also be able to do the same

for the web interface. Instead of having one single web server to serve, setup a second one (same name, different IP, using round robin) that can do the same. Since the main mailman files are really only on one machine (but visible through NFS on the other) it ought to work, no?

Comments?

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