Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
i don't think there are any MTA:s that outspokenly support an active/active mirroring set up. the only thing i can possibly imagine might be able to is something using maildirs though. mailspools can't work. let us know how you get on with this please, would be interesting to see if it can be done with whats out there today or not. alec Duane Cox wrote: > I'm not sure yet. > > For my customer base, I will _need_ pop3. I would like to also run an IMAP solution. > I'm not sure what to use as an MTA either. > > Any recommendations? > > Thanks > Duane Cox > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alexander Lind" <malte at webstay.org> > To: "Duane Cox" <duanec at mail.illicom.net> > Cc: <drbd-user at linbit.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:44 PM > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] active/active mail server > > > >> what kind of mail servers are you running, imap? mailspools or >> maildirs? or just pop? >> >> drbd 0.8 (which is not final yet) supports active/active i believe, but >> not the current 0.7 version. >> >> alec >> >> Duane Cox wrote: >> >>> I'm wanting to setup two mail servers in an active / active role, basically meaning both are working, operating, sharing the >>> > load. > >>> I have a layer-4 switch that I can use for the IP side of things, but I am looking for a solution for the data (mailboxes). >>> >>> I have 2 Dell Servers that each have 5 hard drives and 2 gigabit network cards. >>> >>> Here is what I would like to do, please tell me if it is possible, not possible, or just plain stupid. >>> >>> I would like to have a solution, so that if one server died, no user would notice, I would like to do this without a SAN or >>> > External > >>> SCSI device. >>> >>> My Idea is to link the 2 servers via IP using a crossover cable and one NIC from each machine. Use the remaining NIC for >>> > Internet > >>> inbout/outbound traffic. >>> Since each server has 5 drives, I would like to setup some sort of array that DRBD would manage and keep in sync. >>> >>> >From what I have read on the website, DRBD doesn't support write from both nodes. Has this been changed? I think I would need >>> write access from both nodes? If so, who is the author of DRBD? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Duane Cox >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> drbd-user mailing list >>> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com >>> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >>> >>> >>> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20061204/bb9aff2c/attachment.htm>