Hello,
Excuse me for posting this again, but now on imap-uw instead of imap-use. I
have given this quite some thought but haven't yet found a satisfactory
solution. Having multiple smtp servers and failover servers is not a problem.
But the problem is if the server which contains the user's mailboxes fails,
no amount of failover will help as users still can't read their email.
Hence my question.
Is there any practical way to do replication using imap? So that every
imap action is mirrored to another server and you have in fact 2
identical copies of the mailboxes.
This would introduce quite a few problems.
We simply use 4 two-node Sun clusters, each with dedicated (and redundant)
RAID. Users are spread over the clusters and mail is reachable via IMAP
and POP.
An entire cluster being knocked out is indicative of Bigger Problems
(widespread blackout, failed UPS+generator, building loss, etc).
If you check here it talks about replication for subversion, using svnsync.
On every commit an automatic update to a mirror will happen. If the main svn
server fails users can switch to the mirror and continue. It's not email, but
I was thinking a similar functionality is possible using imap.
Thank you,
Jeroen
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