Apple 10.6 manual Setting Up Mail Server Clustering with Xsan, Configuring Mail Clustering

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Setting Up Mail Server Clustering with Xsan

With Xsan, you can cluster multple mail servers that share the mail store. This provides mission-critical redundancy and high performance and allows you to easily maintain the pooled storage using Xsan tools and software.

Each server also has a primary SMTP spool file. If a server goes offline, another node in the cluster takes over processing of the failed sever’s spool file. This happens automatically, but you will see it noted in log files.

You can configure your mail server to join an existing mail cluster as a new member of the cluster, or you can migrate a mail server’s mail store to another server that is a member of the cluster.

If Xsan software is installed, you can also create a cluster, with the current server becoming the cluster’s first member.

Configuring Mail Clustering

1In Server Admin, select a computer in the Servers list, then select Mail.

2Click Advanced.

3Click Clustering.

4Click the Change button, then follow the onscreen instructions that appear.

Note: After a server has joined a cluster, changes to mail server settings, such as SMTP,

POP, IMAP, and logging, will affect all servers in the cluster.

When you remove the last member of a cluster, you must designate a server to take over as a standard mail server.

Configuring Additional Mail Service Support for 8-Bit MIME

By default, many mail systems that use 8-bit character encoding for text (like Asian language mail systems) convert from 8-bit MIME to 7-bit characters. This has the unfortunate effect of garbling the mail.

To receive 8-bit character-encoded mail messages, disable the default conversion that Postfix performs. Use the postconf command-line tool to disable the setting.

To disable the default conversion:

1Log in to your server as the administrator.

2In Terminal, enter the following command:

sudo postconf -e disable_mime_output_conversion=yes

This disables the special processing of Content-Type headers while delivering mail.

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Apple 10.6 manual Setting Up Mail Server Clustering with Xsan, Configuring Additional Mail Service Support for 8-Bit Mime