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  62 <h1>Becoming a Postfix mirror site</h1>
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  64 <p> In order to have your Postfix mirror site listed on the Postfix
  65 web site, please send mail to wietse@porcupine.org that answers
  66 the following questions. </p>
  67
  68 <p> Please note: Wietse often saves up the website updates for a
  69 week or more before going through them. </p>
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  71 <ul>
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  73 <li> <p> Timeliness: specify your mirroring frequency. Use a
  74 mirroring procedure that: </p>
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  76 <ul>
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  78 <li>runs as a CRON job
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  80 <li>runs least once a day.
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  82 </ul>
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  84 <li> <p> Accuracy: specify what mirroring software will you be
  85 using. Use mirroring software that: </p>
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  87 <ul>
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  89 <li>downloads only the new files
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  91 <li>removes all files that no longer exist on the primary server.
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  93 </ul>
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  95 <p> Examples of mirroring software: </p>
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  97 <ul>
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  99 <li> <a href="http://www.sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/">mirror</a>
 100
 101 <li> <a href="http://www.ohse.de/uwe/ftpcopy.html">ftpcopy</a>
 102
 103 <li> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget</a>
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 105 </ul>
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 107 <li> <p> What: specify what files you are going to mirror: </p>
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 109 <ul>
 110
 111 <li>source code: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-release/
 112
 113 <li>documentation: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/mirrors/postfix-master/
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 115 </ul>
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 117 <li> <p> Where: specify at what URLs the information will be made
 118 available.  </p>
 119
 120 <li> Location: specify what city/country should be listed on the
 121 Postfix web site.
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