Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:08:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "David E. Meier" <dev@eth0.ch> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution Message-ID: <20040622100825.01f0b258.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3016.217.162.71.141.1087911989.squirrel@serv04.inetworx.ch> References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <a22ff294040621115173bad2e0@mail.gmail.com> <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621214348.GB63857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040621175626.3e762448.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <40D76DA3.9090809@mac.com> <20040621204111.6e684d45.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <40D79FF9.20308@mac.com> <20040622084726.524bfa39.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <3016.217.162.71.141.1087911989.squirrel@serv04.inetworx.ch>
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"David E. Meier" <dev@eth0.ch> wrote: > > Like I said, we'll never know till someone tries it. It looks like > > Dovecot is going to try it eventually, but it seems like they have > > other priorities at this time. > > "Someone" already stores mails in a database: Oracle (Email Server and > Collaboration Suite). I set up the Oracle Email Server 5.2 for a company I > worked for earlier. And to express it nicely: It was a nightmare! Mails > got stuck and rejected because the system was not capable of writing them > into the database. Besides, the support for that system was also =0. We > were probably the only ones daring to run the system ;-) I am glad I am > running cyrus now. Extremly stable and fast. > > That system was not well thought through at all. I don't know how much > work needs to be done for a database email store, but Oracle wasn't > (isn't) able to do so. It's a shame it wasn't an OSS project, so we could determine if keeping mail in a database is a bad idea, or if Oracle just did it poorly. The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the mailboxes. I was wondering if it could be done with Coda, but I don't know anything about Coda, and it doesn't look like I'll have time to experiment in the near future. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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