From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 14:08:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96B116A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:08:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F98643D45 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:08:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0A369A3F; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:08:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:08:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "David E. Meier" Message-Id: <20040622100825.01f0b258.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <3016.217.162.71.141.1087911989.squirrel@serv04.inetworx.ch> References: <20040621132006.2b1a296f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621172520.3544d6fe.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20040621214348.GB63857@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040621175626.3e762448.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <40D76DA3.9090809@mac.com> <20040621204111.6e684d45.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <40D79FF9.20308@mac.com> <20040622084726.524bfa39.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <3016.217.162.71.141.1087911989.squirrel@serv04.inetworx.ch> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: What's the best possible email failover solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:08:47 -0000 "David E. Meier" wrote: > > Like I said, we'll never know till someone tries it. It looks like > > Dovecot is going to try it eventually, but it seems like they have > > other priorities at this time. > > "Someone" already stores mails in a database: Oracle (Email Server and > Collaboration Suite). I set up the Oracle Email Server 5.2 for a company I > worked for earlier. And to express it nicely: It was a nightmare! Mails > got stuck and rejected because the system was not capable of writing them > into the database. Besides, the support for that system was also =0. We > were probably the only ones daring to run the system ;-) I am glad I am > running cyrus now. Extremly stable and fast. > > That system was not well thought through at all. I don't know how much > work needs to be done for a database email store, but Oracle wasn't > (isn't) able to do so. It's a shame it wasn't an OSS project, so we could determine if keeping mail in a database is a bad idea, or if Oracle just did it poorly. The other option is to take what appears to be the best IMAP server out there (Cyrus) and figure out a way to do real-time mirroring of the mailboxes. I was wondering if it could be done with Coda, but I don't know anything about Coda, and it doesn't look like I'll have time to experiment in the near future. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com