High availability mail server options

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:09 -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 08:52 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > 1. I am not sure that I would use Fedora anything for HA intent. I would
> > probably use RHEL or CentOS or Debian or something in the stable
> > category
> We've got clients running FC2, FC3 and FC4 servers, sometimes with multi
> Terrabyte arrays, and lots of services running and not a single hiccup.
> We run FC3 & FC4 servers ourselves and have run FC servers since FC1
> came out and have never had a problem. 
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I didn't suggest there was a problem - my thinking is that the life
cycle of Fedora is not assured.

I stopped using Fedora for servers at FC-1 with the advent of
whiteboxlinux and now CentOS. 
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> 
> > 2. A Maildir setup would likely put each users folders in their home
> > directories making it extremely difficult to backup the mail itself
> > whereas something like cyrus-imapd has it's own mail store which can be
> > put onto it's own partition and could simply be dumped.
> Use qmail with vpopmail and all the mail ends up (by default unless you
> change it) in /home/vpopmail/domains/domainX/userX/Maildir .
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and that's perfect. I don't think dovecot would do it that way.

Craig


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