FreeBSD cluseter ?
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Sat Mar 11 05:08:30 UTC 2006
On Mar 10, 2006, at 11:58 AM, RJ45 wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have the tastk to make a project of a server cluster for 20.000
> mailboxes.
> In which way may I create a cluseter of imap servers using FreeBSD ?
> any suggestions or hints ?
> The is the problem of the imap mailboxes. How can I syncronize them
> in real time on both machines ?
> I as thinking to cyrus imapd or dovecot as imap server, but anyway
> 20.000 mailboxes are really huge...
> And with cyrus imapd is impossible to achieve a real fail over system
> even using cyrus murder.
I am not an expert on this but you should be able to run multiple
dovecot or courier-imap servers across multiple machines accessing a
central filesystem using maildir format. maildir is designed for
multiple access etc.
Chad
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