Dan, sounds like you need Exchange Server 2003 my friend. You *** MAY *** be able to store the mailboxes on your storage device, and then replicate the registry amongst your 5 boxes and then configure Network Load Balancing to distribute 1 static IP over the 5 boxes (point your MX record to this IP). -Chris
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Dan Geiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:54:59 -0500 >Hello, All, >We are in the process of re-architecting our Web and E-Mail hosting service. > >For our web hosting we are architecting things in such a way that all of the >web content is going to be stored on a common web content storage device and >we will be able to add front end web servers as needed. This will allow us >to have more redundancy, load balancing, fault tolerance, etc. So we can >take down servers for extended periods of time, if necessary, or reboot >servers here and there without having to worry about content not being >available. > >Is there anyway to configure mulltiple IMail servers, e.g. 5 servers, in a >similar manner so the users aren't locked in to having all of their e-mail >stored on a specific server? Someone mentioned that IMail supported >"peering" (whatever that is) but I can't seem to find anything on their web >site about it. > >How are ISPs that are using IMail on their mail server handling this >situation? If there's not an IPSwitch recommended way of doing this is >there some sort of workaround that is commonly known as the best way to >achieve this? > >Thanks In Advance, >Dan Geiser >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >E-mail scanned for viruses by Nexus (http://www.ntgrp.com/mailscan) > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
