On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:41 -0400, David Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:21 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. A Maildir setup would likely put each users folders in their home > > > > directories making it extremely difficult to backup the mail itself > > > > whereas something like cyrus-imapd has it's own mail store which can be > > > > put onto it's own partition and could simply be dumped. > > > Use qmail with vpopmail and all the mail ends up (by default unless you > > > change it) in /home/vpopmail/domains/domainX/userX/Maildir . > > ---- > > and that's perfect. I don't think dovecot would do it that way. > > > > Craig > > I have postfix sending the mail to a /home/vmail/domains/<domain>/<user> > style arrangement. Dovecot handles this arrangement nicely as well. > Rsync should be able to handle it pretty easily via cron job, but it > would be nice if I can reliably take it to a lower level. > > For receiving external mail, I can simply list both (or more) of the > mail servers with MX and let them sync each other. For joe internal > user sending mail and accessing via IMAP, I would do an LVS or > round-robin DNS style thing to get them to one of the servers. While I > may have a brief interruption in the event of a server failure, thats > acceptable at this point. ---- I would be taking this up with a dovecot list since they are certain to give you much better real world experience with these ideas. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
