Load balance for POP3

Vince Hoffman jhary at unsane.co.uk
Wed Jul 9 08:43:33 UTC 2008


scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
> Hi Vince,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Vince Hoffman wrote:
> 
> |> |>     I need to switch the users connections between two POP3 servers based on
> |> |> login information.
> |> |>     Since the login is part of the pop3 handshake, I'm stuck on how to
> |> |> "transfer" the connection and pass the info already sent.
> |> 
> |would nginx (as described here
> |http://highscalability.com/nginx-high-performance-smpt-pop-imap-proxy)
> |be more what your after?
> 
> 	Yes, it seems thar Nginx has what I need. Do you have any working 
> setup? Thank you,
> 
I'm afraid not, I looked into it a little but management ended up
deciding we would be using zxtm load balancers
(http://www.zeus.com/products/zxtm/) which were better suited for us
overall.

Vince


> - Marcelo Souza
> 
> 
> - Marcelo



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