On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 11:00 -0300, fernando@dfcom.com.br wrote:
this is very weird and (at same time) very interesting approach. Instead of put all messages into one maildir and this maildir into one server, this "maildir" (?) is spplited among many servers - so, if one servers fails the account is still acessible and they move old/big messages to a new "cheap" storage - archiving transparently.
Well, this is somewhat related to the filesystem abstraction that I'm planning. You'll just need to implement a filesystem that allows distributing a single user's mails to multiple servers. That's actually also what I was planning on doing by using some existing database for that (Cassandra?) And sure it would be possible to implement all of that on my own, but probably it's too much trouble..