David,
I kind of thought you might be going down that road, but you are right, the
message did not really state what you were looking for.
At this time, there is not a way to store messages in an external database.
Cannot talk about any future changes (do not have that info!) that may make
this possible.
It may be possible, to use a common message store, in your proposed
configuration, but none that are 'supported' by Ipswitch and IMail. In
theory, as long as both servers, have access to (permissions are correct,
too) and 'point to' the same 'Top Directory' (on a mapped drive?), IMail
"should" work. There may be some drawbacks and difficulties with this
method, but I'm not an expert on it, nor can I see me becoming one
(remember, we don't support it!). I can forsee both servers accepting a
message for a user and both trying to stuff the message into the mailbox at
the same time. Not sure how file locking, would affect this situation. I
expect the first one there to get the lock, and that would prevent the other
from getting access, but it would then be succesful on a later delivery
attempt.
Daniel Donnelly
Ipswitch Technical Support
________________________________________________________
See our Knowledge Base at http://support.ipswitch.com/kb
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:38 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ODBC Message Store.
> Hi,
>
> Actually I worded my previous message quite poorly... what I meant was for
> the placement of the message store. I'd prefer to place it and the
extending
> account configuration in SQL instead of using the filesystem method
> currently employed.
>
> What I am looking to do is have two mailservers behind load balancing
> hardware, working off of the same authentication database and the same
> message stores. I assume I can do this easily with network attached
storage
> that supports true file locking, although I'd rather stuff it all in my
SQL
> server.
>
> Am I out to lunch here or are there any options?
>
> Thanks,
> -Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Donnelly
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ODBC Message Store.
>
>
> David,
>
> This page on the site tells some of the story:
> http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/IMail_Server/features.html
>
> And the manual, pgs 43-46 show how to configure IMail for ODBC usage. The
> KnowledgeBase has a bunch of FAQs on the subject (search for ODBC). and
you
> can get the source code for the dll from:
> ftp.ipswitch.com\ipswitch\product_support\imail\odbcuser.zip.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> Ipswitch Technical Support
> ________________________________________________________
> See our Knowledge Base at http://support.ipswitch.com/kb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 4:51 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] ODBC Message Store.
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have heard from some existing Imail users, that Imail is capable of
> > storing the user directories in a ODBC compliant database, in lieu of
the
> > filesystem/directory arangement.
> >
> > Looking through the website, and the supporting documentation, I have
> failed
> > to find any reference to this type of functionality. Can anyone shed any
> > light on this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Dave
> >
> > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> > to be removed from this list.
> >
>
> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> to be removed from this list.
>
>
> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
> to be removed from this list.
>
Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
to be removed from this list.
