I missed the beginning of this thread
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Timo Schoeler wrote:
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> thus Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa spake:
>> Hi!
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>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Faisal Ghulam <f.ghulam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I want to deploy LVS for highly traffic IMAP,POP3 .
>>>
>>> Can any one guide me how to get it with Centos 5.3.
>>>
>>> My backend Email server is Postfix.
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>> Postfix handles SMTP, not IMAP/POP3. I use dovecot for IMAP/POP3, but
>> I'm more interested on security than performance, so..... maybe
>> someone else can suggest a faster IMAP server (although dovecot is not
>> slow, I think, just for the record).
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> Dovecot is one of the best performing (if not *the* best performing)
> pop/imap servers out there. Just use the search egine you like for
> benchmark comparisons, and you'll get a bunch of results that will show
> this, on different OSes (may it be GNU/Linux, xBSD, or whatever).
take a look at Cyrus, it is _very_ scalable, and includes replication and
clustering capabilities. It's routinely used by universities and other larger
organizations.
David Lang
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