Becoming a Postfix mirror site

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Becoming a Postfix mirror site</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='postfix.css'> </head> <div id='left'> <p> <img src="mysza.gif" width="130" height="91" alt="[LOGO]"> </p> <p class='navhead'>QUICK LINKS</p> <p class='nav'><a href="start.html">Home</a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="announcements.html">Announcements</a> </p>  <p class='nav'><a href="features.html">Feature overview </a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="web-sites.html">Web sites (text)</a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="download.html">Download (source)</a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="lists.html">Mailing lists</a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="press.html">Press and Interviews</a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="documentation.html">Documentation</a> </p>  <p class='nav'><a href="addon.html">Add-on Software</a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="packages.html">Packages and Ports</a> </p> <p class='nav'><a href="mirror.html">Becoming a mirror site</a> </p> <p class='navhead'></p> <form method="get" action="https://www.google.com/search"> <p class='nav'> <input size="-1" type="submit" value="Search"><br> <input type="text" name="q" size="16" maxlength="255" value=""> <input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="www.postfix.org"> </p> </form> </div> <div id='main'> <h1>Becoming a Postfix mirror site</h1> <p> In order to have your Postfix mirror site listed on the Postfix web site, please send mail to wietse@porcupine.org that answers the following questions. </p> <p> Please note: Wietse often saves up the website updates for a week or more before going through them. </p> <ul> <li> <p> Timeliness: specify your mirroring frequency. Use a mirroring procedure that: </p> <ul> <li>runs as a CRON job <li>runs least once a day. </ul> <li> <p> Accuracy: specify what mirroring software will you be using. Use mirroring software that: </p> <ul> <li>downloads only the new files <li>removes all files that no longer exist on the primary server. </ul> <p> Examples of mirroring software: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/mirror/">mirror</a> <li> <a href="http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy.html">ftpcopy</a> <li> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget</a> </ul> <li> <p> What: specify what files you are going to mirror: </p> <ul> <li>source code: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/ <li>documentation: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-master/ </ul> <li> <p> Where: specify at what URLs the information will be made available. </p> <li> Location: specify what city/country should be listed on the Postfix web site. </ul> </div> </body> </html>

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Becoming a Postfix mirror site