Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:43:48 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the best possible email failover solution Message-ID: <20040621214348.GB63857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <a22ff294040621115173bad2e0@mail.gmail.com> <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:25:20PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> The return can be significant. The company I am doing this for provides IMAP
> mail services for business. If a filesystem crashes and service is down for a
> while, we can easily lose clients. If we had some sort of failover, we'd be
> able to just switch the IP on the backup machine and life would be good.
>
> "long way to go" is what I'm trying to establish. I was hoping to find
> something workable without reinventing the wheel. For example, Postgresql can
> do real-time replication between two Postgresql servers using Slony. If I can
> find an IMAP server that will keep the mail folders in PostgreSQL, I've got my
> failover system ... tada!
http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql
Cheers,
Matthew
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