[Mailman-Users] Call for suggestions

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    I want to setup multiple servers running (the same) mailman lists.
The ways I can think of doing this is either:

    Option 1:
       Setup a master machine with everything on it and export the
       mailman structure for NFS so the other machines can mount it,
       and use it.

       Problem: What happens if the NFS connection dies?  Msgs get
                lost.  That's not desirable.

    Option 2:
       Have the remote machines mirror the master (through [s]ftp or
       [s]rcp).  This will avoid having to deal with NFS dropping.

       Problem: The files won't be as up-to-date as the master, unless
                one starts mirroring continuously, which would be
                ridiculous.


    Option 2 looks the most promising, however what's a good interval?
30 minutes?  15?  More?  Less?  And what happens if during the mirroring
processes, a new message came in on that remote server?  Things can get
horribly broken.  So I'd have to think about having to suspend the MTA
as well while that's going on.

    I'm open for suggestions.

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