Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!brian
From: brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: splitting the sendmail load
Message-ID: <1447@ucsd.EDU>
Date: 10 Feb 89 18:47:09 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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I've just come up with what I think is a brilliant and original idea:
NFS mount /usr/spool/mqueue across two or more suns, and have one of
them act as the sendmail receiver (-odq) and another run the queue
for delivery.  The idea is to avoid having to buy a bigger machine
for our mail gateway by using the much-less expensive Suns and spreading
the sendmail load out among more than one CPU.

As far as I can tell, sendmail does all it's interaction and locking
using files in the mqueue, so this should work.  Have I missed
something?  Is anyone already doing this or tried it?

	Brian Kantor	UCSD Office of Academic Computing
			Academic Network Operations Group  
			brian@ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN@UCSD