Just share yours experience about deployment of LVS with SMTP,IMAP/POP3. if we used only 500 Mb/s traffic to one LVS then what we will have to do for achieve it behind Postfix as SMTP and Dovecot as IMAP/POP3.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Timo Schoeler <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > thus David Lang spake: > > I missed the beginning of this thread > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Timo Schoeler wrote: > > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> thus Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa spake: > >>> Hi! > >>> > >>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Faisal Ghulam <[email protected]> > 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. > >>> 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). > >> 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. > > Cyrus is a nice player in the field (still run it myself on some hosts), > but it has some major drawbacks: > > - - proprietary mail storage mechanism (compared to MailDir/mbox et al.) > > - - slower than Dovecot, e.g. > > - - compared to other pop/imap servers, it does not implement RFCs as good > as others (Dovecot is very good here, too) > > > David Lang > > HTH, > > Timo > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFMY7FUfg746kcGBOwRAlK/AJsELko4InWqRPWQg725pexJuyTKfACfTNio > NSQQY24vTL62OSjPsoS8nTs= > =OT+5 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: > http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ > > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] > Send requests to [email protected] > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users > _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
