On 2.2.2010, at 0.39, David Halik wrote: > Back to dovecot, actually sqlite might work, because then I don't need a > database backend, just a local sqlite regex. The question then being, how > would dovecot handle multiple servers? For example: > > (if '%u' regexp '^[a-d]' then '192.168.xxx.1 || 192.168.xxx.2 || > 192.168.xxx.3' else \ > if '%u' regexp '^[e-k]' then '192.168.xxx.2 || 192.168.xxx.3 || > 192.168.xxx.1' else \ > ..) as proxy_maybe > > There are ways of doing this in mysql, with heartbeats etc (which we've > discussed before), but then I'm back to mysql again. Maybe mysql just has to > be the way to go in this case.
Well, continuing my mail about using DNS: You could create a heartbeat that updates DNS records (with low TTL) when it sees that servers are down. Not as good as everything done automated, but maybe easier than making MySQL redundant?
