Yes I am using qmail and courier and everything is in
Maildir format. The big problem now is the size of
the RVM. If I broke down the monolithic servers into
smaller ones of 50gb each, and replicate each one of
those internationally I wonder if it would work.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 11 Oct, Zachary Denison wrote:
> >
> >
> > In terms of the read any/ write all strategy thats
> > exactly what I want. I do want it to deliver ail
> to
> > all the servers at once. I want a system exactly
> as
> > yuo said, so that if one location completely loses
> > internet connectivity, users outside that location
> can
> > still access the email. Coda seems to be theonly
> > system I know about that has read/write
> replication.
> > Even AFS only supports read/only replication.
>
> (Excuse me butting in)
>
> There is a standard for mail systems called
> 'Maildirs' which
> would work with coda. It was designed for mail kept
> on shared drives
> (aimed at NFS with its locking probs, IIRC). A few
> mail servers use it
> (like Courier).
>
> Rather than using a spool file all messages are kept
> in files, one per
> message, with the meta-data in the filename. Since
> the mail protocols
> don't support editing mail on the server, access to
> the files is only
> ever create or delete, so there shouldn't be any
> conflicts.
>
> However Jan still has the unbeatable point about the
> bandwidth you would
> need.
>
> --
> I/O, I/O,
> It's off to disk I go,
> A bit or byte to read or write,
> I/O, I/O, I/O...
>
>
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