Two MailScanner boxes

[Juan C. Quesada]

I have been using rsync with three boxes and it has
worked just fine for me. I have a cron job that runs
every 5 minutes and copies from my main server.

i make the changes on one server only and replicate
the changes over. :)
--- Christopher Lyon <cslyon at NETSVCS.COM> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Antony Stone
> [mailto:Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK]
> > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 5:01 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Two MailScanner boxes
> >
> > On Saturday 27 September 2003 11:47 pm, Chris Lyon
> wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to run two mailscanner boxes for
> our incoming mail.
> > Currently
> > > we just have one MailScanner box forwarding
> messages to a M$
> exchange
> > box.
> > > We would like to put a second one for redundancy
> and create two MX
> > records
> > > with the same preference.
> >
> > Sounds like a good plan.
> >
> > > I am sure this isn't a big deal but the question
> that I have is, how
> to
> > > sync the confs, rules and other files between
> the boxes?
> >
> > I'd use rsync.
> >
>
> Rsync can be used automatically without user
> intervention?
>
> > > Does anybody have a script for this already?
> Does anybody see any
> > > other issues with doing this configuration?
> >
> > Remember that if you automatically sync the config
> files on one
> machine to
> > the other, both will need to reload MailScanner to
> use the new config
> -
> > you
> > might want to set up a cron job which checks for
> conf files newer than
> the
> > PID files, or something like that, and does a
> reload if necessary?
>
> What about just setting MailScanner's default
> restart down to something
> like 1 hour.
>
> That would be RESTART EVERY = 3600
>
> So it isn't real time but within an hour the changes
> will be pushed.
> That should be OK, Now just in case something is
> wrong with the conf
> file, I should just do a check to make sure the PID
> is there and send an
> alarm if it isn't present.
>
>
> >
> > > Also, a side note question since I am asking,
> there is a document on
> how
> > to
> > > deal with different rules for different domains?
> So, example,
> sales.com
> > has
> > > one set of rules, scores...etc and techy.com has
> another set of
> rules.
> > We
> > > apparently are being two aggressive with our
> rules and are upsetting
> our
> > > sales team.
> >
> > There are good notes on this sort of thing in
> /opt/MailScanner/etc/rules
> >
> > Also I believe someone has just added a 'Rules'
> section to the website
> FAQ,
> > so if you find some good advice (or come up with
> some on your own) it
> > would
> > be nice to post it there for other people to
> reference.
> >
>
> Yeah, I did read some of that and it looks like this
> is mostly around
> the rules files, filename, whitelist,
> blacklist...etc. I didn't see
> anything about running one domain with "Spam Lists
> To Reach High Score =
> 5" and maybe another domain with "Spam Lists To
> Reach High Score = 10"
> for example. Can the MailScanner.conf file be broken
> down to a domain
> level?
>
>
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antony.
> >
> > --
> >
> > You can spend the whole of your life trying to be
> popular,
> > but at the end of the day the size of the crowd at
> your funeral
> > will be largely dictated by the weather.
> >
> >  - Frank Skinner


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