1 Feb
2010
1 Feb
'10
12:05 p.m.
Hi everybody,
we're currently in the process of drafting our new mailserver-setup. Instead of a single-server-setup we'd like to have two equal servers behind a loadbalancer like LVS and shared mailhomes on NFS.
We'd like to use dovecot for POP/IMAP, dovecot-deliver as LDA.
It's probably the best idea to direct SMTP and POP/IMAP always to the same server behind the loadbalancer (because dovecot-deliver is used which updates indexes?)
If we think of a "active/passive" setup: dovecot index-files locally or on the nfs-share?
Is it possible to activate loadbalancing for SMTP in this environment if dovecot index-files are held locally on each machine (POP/IMAP is directed only to one of the two servers?)
Any comments welcome :-) Werner