On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 11:46, Brian Candler wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:45:50PM +0000, Andrew Ingram wrote: > > We are planning to upgrade our webmail server and change where the > > server is located. Our maildirs are mounted and are on a separate disk > > array. What I'd like to know is will there be any problems in changing > > the host that webmail uses? Is there anything in the maildir that is > > tied to a host? > > No, it's fine. I've built NFS clusters with multiple machines for receiving > incoming mail [exim/deliverquota], for POP3/IMAP [courier-imap], and > sqwebmail, all talking to the same maildirs. > > > The cache is held on > > the server itself. Can you forsee any problems or things that need > > changing? > > By 'cache' you mean the sqwebmail login cache? Yes you're right to keep it > on local disk. If you are sharing the load between multiple front-ends then > you should configure your load-balancer into 'sticky' mode so that repeated > connections from the same IP address hit the same webmail server.
Brian and Sam, thanks very much for the reassurance. Looks like there isn't much for us to fear. Regards, Andrew
