What's the best possible email failover solution

[Matthew Seaman]

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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