[Dovecot] High Availability strategies

[Seth Mattinen]

Joseba Torre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a medium setup (8000 pop and imap users using almost every 
> available client, 800GB of stored mails using maildir on a Celerra NFS 
> server, with index files on local disks, and procmail for local 
> delivery), being served by a Dell PowerEdge 2850 (2GB RAM and dual P4 
> Xeon 3,2GHz).
> 
> Our current not-so-high availability setup is based on a similar 
> server with the same setup and a easy but manual process to switch 
> from one server to another.

If you don't care about keeping an active/standby setup and you're happy
with what you've currently got going on, you can easily automate the
process with heartbeat.

~Seth