On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:06:31PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:24:53AM +0100, Peter Mann wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 08:56:51AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:58:03PM +0100, Alan Marco IsiMan wrote:
> > > > We're going to install a new email platform and we have a big doubt. 
> > > > What is better for our /var/mail, OCFSv2 or NFS? I mean, SAN or NAS. 
> > > > There'll be three machines reading /var/mail and writing in it (webmail 
> > > > write in sent folder and courier-imap in all folders). Courier-Imap is 
> > > > good for NFS? Has someone installed OCFSv2 for /var/mail?
> > > 
> > > If you don't want to use NFS or a global filesystem, then your other 
> > > option
> > > is to build a proxy-based cluster. This means you build a series of small
> > > independent mail servers, each with local disk and holding a subset of 
> > > your
> > > users accounts. The incoming POP3/IMAP connections are each redirected to
> > > the right cluster member. Unfortunately, sqwebmail does not currently
> > > implement such proxying.
> > 
> > i'm using more backend mail servers with Postfix + Courier-IMAP/POP3 and
> > Perdition POP/IMAP Proxy + LDAP (with mailHost attributes for backend
> > mail servers) ... so any mail client can connect only to Perdition
> > POP/IMAP proxy ... 
> 
> Yes, there are many possible POP3/IMAP proxies to choose from, including
> courier-imap itself which has built in proxying capability.

yes, but "Courier will always use plain userid/password authentication,
without encryption, to establish proxy connections"

> However, what I said was that *sqwebmail* does not have the ability to proxy
> to different sqwebmail servers, and that remains true.

yes, i know - because "It accesses maildirs directly, and does not use
an IMAP server"

so i'm using better solutions required in my environment for proxy and
webmail ... 

but anyway, courier-imap on backend servers is great - the best 

-- 

5o   Peter.Mann at tuke.sk



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