Re: HA mail system

2011-01-14 Thread Simone Caruso
On 13/01/2011 22:06, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 13/01/11 19:00, Jaques Cochet wrote: After some reading: - GFS and maildir work bad together - NFS and maildir are not that good, NFS and postfix have some issues but should be OK. Where did you read that GFS worked badly with maildir? I'd be

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-14 Thread mouss
Le 13/01/2011 22:06, Jonathan Tripathy a écrit : On 13/01/11 19:00, Jaques Cochet wrote: After some reading: - GFS and maildir work bad together - NFS and maildir are not that good, NFS and postfix have some issues but should be OK. Where did you read that GFS worked badly with maildir?

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 07:36:12AM +0200, Jaques Cochet wrote: I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I have at least 2 of every

Re: HA mail system - dbmail

2011-01-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Take a look at http://www.dbmail.org/ for imap/pop3 you can have as many servers you want connected with the same database, i would use dovecot as proxy and for sasl-auth which would give you even the option to use mysql-slaves fpr the readonly-requests to spread the database-load Am 13.01.2011

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Deives Michellis
Have you guys considered using Perdition to proxy/redirect IMAP/POP to distribute backend storage to as many as backends as you want? You wont need any SAN/NAS/NFS/GFS/whatever, just a user/storage mapping (ldap, mysql, etc...), and you might even add spare or active/active servers to each storage

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:59:26AM -0200, Deives Michellis wrote: Have you guys considered using Perdition to proxy/redirect IMAP/POP to distribute backend storage to as many as backends as you want? Yes, but I prefer dovecot (since that's what we're running on the backend POP/IMAP-servers). It

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Deives Michellis
Perdition works WITH dovecot (or whatever imap server you use). It's just a proxy - will redirect connections based on username, origin, etc...

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38:05AM -0200, Deives Michellis wrote: Perdition works WITH dovecot (or whatever imap server you use). It's just a proxy - will redirect connections based on username, origin, etc... Yes, I know, and dovecot director also works with dovecot (or any other imap server

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread mouss
Le 13/01/2011 13:46, Jan-Frode Myklebust a écrit : On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38:05AM -0200, Deives Michellis wrote: Perdition works WITH dovecot (or whatever imap server you use). It's just a proxy - will redirect connections based on username, origin, etc... Yes, I know, and dovecot

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jaques Cochet
After some reading: - GFS and maildir work bad together - NFS and maildir are not that good, NFS and postfix have some issues but should be OK. I read that OCFS2 is promising. If it works good, I can use an IMAP proxy and run IMAP on backend servers with postfix. As for SMTP relaying/scanning and

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 13/01/11 19:00, Jaques Cochet wrote: After some reading: - GFS and maildir work bad together - NFS and maildir are not that good, NFS and postfix have some issues but should be OK. Where did you read that GFS worked badly with maildir? I'd be interested to read into this Thanks

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jaques Cochet
Jonathan, check http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/TUhSn61Ee1e4CqmzNaTd http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/linux-clus...@redhat.com/msg07430.html http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-performance-on-GFS-clustered-filesystem-td19655678.html On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Jonathan Tripathy

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
Hi Jaques, Ah yes, I remember reading those. I don't think you have too much to worry about in 2011 though. Those posts were from around 2008 when GFS (The original implementation) didn't scale well for large mailboxes. It was also around the time that GFS2 wasn't stable for production

HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jaques Cochet
Hi I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I have at least 2 of every server (webmail, pop3, imap, relay and smtp (postfix)) for which

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 13/01/11 05:36, Jaques Cochet wrote: Hi I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I have at least 2 of every server (webmail, pop3,

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2011-01-13 07:36:12, Jaques Cochet wrote: | | I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting | of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA | and performance are

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 13/01/11 05:42, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 13/01/11 05:36, Jaques Cochet wrote: Hi I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jaques Cochet
Thank you both, and sorry for not noticing Jonathan's recent post. I'll read a bit and get back. Omar On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Jonathan Tripathy jon...@abpni.co.uk wrote: On 13/01/11 05:42, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 13/01/11 05:36, Jaques Cochet wrote: Hi I'm working on a mail