On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 11:30 -0400, John T. Guthrie III wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with trying to have one
> > > instance of DBmail use database replication to "forward" messages to a
> > > second
> > > instance of DBmail that is located at a remote office?  If so, how would
> > > one
> > > manage to get a message deletion from the remote office to propagate back
> > > to
> > > the main instance?
> > >
> > > The idea here is we would like the users in the remote office to connect
> > > to
> > > their local DBmail instance, and have any changes that they make propagate
> > > back
> > > to the main DBmail instance.  I would be using a postgres backend for
> > > this.
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried this?  If so, how?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much in advance.
> > >
> > > John Guthrie

> > 
> > I don't know  but once  I had  2 servers running dbmail  for different
> > domains  accessing  1 database server both using the same DB  and worked
> > great
> > 
> > 
> > Leonel
> > 
> > 

> That's actually good to know.  So let me make certain that I understand what
> you're saying.  You had two dbmail-imapd/dbmail-pop3d servers running in
> possibly different locations accessing the same database, correct?

Yes, this works just fine. The physical/network distance between the
database server and the dbmail server is only a matter of bandwidth and
latency fetching the data out. It doesn't affect operation at all.

> Did these
> servers have any caching abilities?  I trying to prevent people from having
> to download their email more than once to the remote office that I mentioned
> above.

Do your users have separate email accounts at each site? Do they have
separate workstation? Let's say you have a laptop and a desktop
computer, and you are running a desktop email client on each one. Those
two email clients will have to keep synchronized with the server. Two
servers does not help you in any way.

>   I'm also wondering how dbmail works when using two replicated DBs
> as well.

It doesn't.

> Another question is suppose that I have two dbmail-imapd servers in
> two different locations running for the same domain accessing the same DB.
> Would there be any problems with that scenario?

This works very well. In fact there's no significant difference in this
scenario vs. running several instances of dbmail-imapd on the same
machine.

Aaron

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