I have'nt done it, but my guess would be that it is best to use a external db.
I have planned to do the same, but I won't make a failover cluster but use loadbalancing instead. Set up two identical Imail servers on two Ms adv. server (I call them master and slave). Set them to use a external userdb and of course they shall use the same storage area for mail drop. Give them a common ip-address (understand how ms network loadbalancing works) and make shure that loadbalancing works. Unfortunatly Imail stores some data in the registry so you should make a script that copies the registry setting from your Master to the slave (I'm don't think that this is nessesary if you use clustering instead) this script should be run every time you add a new mail domain to the master server. Now both your servers handle mail and you are able to update one server while the other one still handles mail. You can use their common ip in the mx record or use the master as primary and the slave as secondary mailserver. Your customers should allways use the common ip as pop3/imap/smtp . Hope that helped a little even though it is based on a idea and not practical experience. Best regards Claus Pedersen Travelmarket - Denmark -----Original Message----- From: Tremmas Vassilis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17. januar 2002 10:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] IMail clustered on W2K cluster? Importance: High Hello, I am trying to install IMail on a Windows 2000 Cluster, does anyone know how it's done ? Do I have to use the IMail user database or create a SQL db ? Thank you -- Vassilis Tremmas OTEnet SA Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
