From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 21:44:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9A716A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:44:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF8A43D46 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:44:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i5LLhnX9066494 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:43:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i5LLhm7L066493; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:43:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:43:48 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20040621214348.GB63857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Bill Moran , Andy Harrison , questions@freebsd.org References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.4 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:43:49 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040612, clamav-milter version 0.72a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: Andy Harrison cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the best possible email failover solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:44:04 -0000 --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:25:20PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: =20 > 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. >=20 > "long way to go" is what I'm trying to establish. I was hoping to find > something workable without reinventing the wheel. For example, Postgresq= l 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 g= ot my > failover system ... tada! http://wiki.dovecot.org/moin.cgi/DovecotPostgresql Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA11aUiD657aJF7eIRAizoAJ97dG59SphoSw1B/RAGG5O1XmEtZQCgpGqu zA6FoYEOwUiEb75/TopXOzM= =4+iD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EuxKj2iCbKjpUGkD--