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RE: Load balanced mail system

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Subject: RE: Load balanced mail system
From: "Kees Bos" <k.bos@xxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:58:12 +0100
Maybe you can put some kind of imapproxy in front of your imap servers.
The imapproxy than has to know about the multiple imap servers and the
imapproxy itself can be loadbalanced.

I haven't used it myself, but perdition seems to do this:
  http://www.vergenet.net/linux/perdition/

Kees

Pierre Ancelot <> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I tried to implement a mail system load balanced but i had some
> issues: 
> 
> - The system implement imap amd imaps
> 
>   So in this case, someone creating an imap folder will creating it on
> only one node....
> 
> - How to update a mail received on one host to every hosts ? using
> rsync would delete every mail received in the same time on other
> servers... 
> 
> All this makes me think i should store mails in a mysql cluster
> database or in a filesystem like AFS for example.
> 
> Anyone could enlight me on this please ?
> 
> 
> Thanks, Pierre.
> 
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